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Late blitz cube quiz
Posted By: Timothy Chow In Response To: Late blitz cube quiz (Stick)
Date: Sunday, 3 October 2010, at 3:00 a.m.
Stick wrote:
Why wouldn't you just leave this bit of information out?
I could have, I guess. But if I were going to do that, then I'd like to have at least some of the problems be ND/T, and I don't happen to have collected many examples of those right now.
Do you feel you're strong at early game blitzing cubes already?
Strong is relative, but yes, I think I'm stronger at early-game blitzing cubes (at least for money) than at the kinds of cubes I've just posted. I've gone repeatedly over the examples in the Backgammon Encyclopedia, in Kit's article, and in various other sources. I know I have to assess the number of checkers on the bar, number of points made, which points are made, whether there's a checker already slotted on a deep point or a high point, how many checkers are in the zone, which home-board points the defender has, which outfield points the defender has, how much escaping of the back checkers the attacker still needs to do. I don't blunder that much on early-game blitz cubes any more, though there's still room for improvement of course.
However, for late blitzes I still blunder often, because I don't have a good feeling for them yet. My rules of thumb for early-game blitzes don't do me much good when I'm facing a five-point board. Nor do they help me judge the difference between a four-prime and a five-prime (of the defender). This is the kind of thing I haven't seen much literature about.
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