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Go for backgame or ?

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Thursday, 26 August 2010, at 8:25 p.m.

In Response To: Go for backgame or ? (Keene)

The bot rollout will surely recommend bar/16.

The idea of making the 4 point is not so much to "play a 1-4 backgame" but to make it easier for your checkers to enter from the bar and to make their way out from the ace point into the light of day. For example, supposing that Black's blot were on the 5 point rather than the 4 point, then anchoring immediately on the 5 point would be correct, even though the 1-5 backgame is one of the worst backgames.

Back in the original position, if you manage to make the 4 point then that will win more often, but I think that typically you're not going to be able to make the 4 point because you'll just get knocked off it as soon as you slot it, and the net result will just be more checkers on the ace point. The phantom 4 point will cause your opponent some irritation anyway.

It would be interesting to see what modifications to the position (say at DMP) are needed to get the rollout to favor keeping the 4 point slotted.

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