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Late Game 2-1

Posted By: ah_clem
Date: Tuesday, 8 February 2011, at 2:37 p.m.

In Response To: Late Game 2-1 (Karam Ashoo)

White is holding a 4-cube at 4-away. Gammons are useless and white has a tremendous lead in the race (pipcount shows 15, but it's effectively more than that since black has so many men to bring home before beginning the bearoff.) Why give black a chance to turn the game around by hitting him?

At other match scores I'd look carefully at hitting and going for the gammon, but here it just makes no sense.

Then, once you've decided to play safe, how exactly you shuffle your checkers in your homeboard won't make a big difference in equity. Go for efficiency in the bearoff - make the three and then play off the 5 or the 6 with the one.

Messages In This Thread

• Late Game 2-1
  Karam Ashoo -- Tuesday, 8 February 2011, at 8:09 a.m.
  • Late Game 2-1
    Michael Petch -- Tuesday, 8 February 2011, at 8:19 a.m.
  • Late Game 2-1
    ah_clem -- Tuesday, 8 February 2011, at 2:37 p.m.
  • Late Game 2-1
    Turz -- Tuesday, 8 February 2011, at 2:50 p.m.
  • Late Game 2-1
    Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 8 February 2011, at 4:38 p.m.
  • Late Game 2-1
    neilkaz -- Tuesday, 8 February 2011, at 5:51 p.m.
  • Late Game 2-1
    Daniel Murphy -- Tuesday, 8 February 2011, at 8:27 p.m.
  • Late Game 2-1 - Rollout
    Karam Ashoo -- Wednesday, 9 February 2011, at 8:46 a.m.
    • Late Game 2-1 - Rollout
      ah_clem -- Wednesday, 9 February 2011, at 3:35 p.m.
    • Late Game 2-1 - Rollout
      Casper van der Tak -- Wednesday, 9 February 2011, at 3:51 p.m.