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The Art of Beavering

Posted By: ah_clem
Date: Monday, 21 February 2011, at 4:08 p.m.

In Response To: The Art of Beavering (Timothy Chow)

I don't do much money play, so my experience with beavers is very limited. (at least I don't have the opportunity to be confused about the Jacoby rule here)

Looking at this position it appears that blue got hit during the bearoff and it's now a race. The rule of thumb that I remember in these scenarios is that white should cube when he has 5 or fewer checkers borne off. Here he has four, so that would indicate a proper double.

QF tells me that it must not be a double, but given how close it is to a double it's probably not be a beaver. I wouldn't beaver.

Messages In This Thread

• The Art of Beavering
  Timothy Chow -- Saturday, 19 February 2011, at 5:38 p.m.
  • The Art of Beavering
    Casper van der Tak -- Saturday, 19 February 2011, at 5:59 p.m.
  • The Art of Beavering
    Stick -- Saturday, 19 February 2011, at 6:00 p.m.
  • The Art of Beavering
    Matt Cohn-Geier -- Sunday, 20 February 2011, at 12:00 p.m.
    • The Art of Beavering
      Timothy Chow -- Sunday, 20 February 2011, at 5:25 p.m.
  • Rollout (and XG bug?)
    Timothy Chow -- Sunday, 20 February 2011, at 8:11 p.m.
  • The Art of Beavering
    ah_clem -- Monday, 21 February 2011, at 4:08 p.m.