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Backgame defense: the care and feeding of the bear in process

Posted By: higonefive
Date: Saturday, 30 October 2010, at 9:15 a.m.

In Response To: Backgame defense (Joe Freedman)

This can be used to spell out the features to care for when bearing in against an anchor ( or anchors), and ask the question if there is a ranking: Clearing outside points, filling in gaps and avoiding them, filling in phantom gaps and avoiding them, distribution of spares, not playing spares behind the anchor, all that because avoiding to make forced numbers worser. So, can we develop general rules (i remember the chapter in "Vision laughs at Counting") because of the structure and how to play forced numbers then when points are cleared in the process. Or are there to much exeptions to create general rules? I would therefore (putting the above described features in a ranking) play 6/4(2). That closes a gap. 7/4(4) clears the outside point, but the inside gap lives then almost forever. Closing the gap and not create a new one is overriding.

Messages In This Thread

• Backgame defense
  Joe Freedman -- Friday, 29 October 2010, at 12:28 p.m.
  • Sorry- didn't mean to post analysis *NM*
    Joe Freedman -- Friday, 29 October 2010, at 12:30 p.m.
  • Backgame defense
    Casper van der Tak -- Friday, 29 October 2010, at 1:46 p.m.
  • Backgame defense
    Bill Riles -- Friday, 29 October 2010, at 2:31 p.m.
  • Backgame defense: the care and feeding of the bear in process
    higonefive -- Saturday, 30 October 2010, at 9:15 a.m.