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Stick vs Falafel Cube #1

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Thursday, 3 June 2010, at 5:48 p.m.

In Response To: Stick vs Falafel Cube #1 (Paul Weaver)

Yellow has nine checkers in the zone, a three-point board but with the 5 point open, one back checker escaped, and a twenty-pip race lead. Black has one checker on the bar and has a bar-point anchor and no extra blots. This must be a clear take. Nine checkers in the zone with a 6-4-3 board will typically not be a drop (for money, and 7a7a is close enough to money for these purposes) unless Black's position has some additional weaknesses, which it doesn't here. A bar-point holding game is typically not as good as a five-point holding game when the race deficit is large but it's enough equity for a take here.

Doubling is also clear because there are plenty of market losers and not many ways for things to go wrong for Yellow.

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