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BQ... playing against a 42 backgame

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Monday, 6 June 2011, at 11:14 p.m.

In Response To: BQ... playing against a 42 backgame (neilkaz)

BQ, from neilkaz? Yeah, right. :-)

It took me about 30 seconds before I even saw 13/7 12/7 because making the bar seems unnatural here; I think we want to clear the 7pt and 8pt rather than hold them. Still, I think White would often rather play 21/18 with a 3 than use it up front, or possibly even try to make that point, so 13/7 12/7 deserves some consideration.

If we don't want the 7pt then 12/6 seems to be the natural 6. After that, either 8/3 or 15/10 seems playable. (I don't think we want to stack yet another checker on the undesirable 8pt with 13/8.) 8/3 starts to clear the troublesome 8pt, while 15/10 makes progress scrambling the last checker home. Getting hit with 21/15* after 15/10 does risk getting a checker trapped, but I think the danger is not too serious yet. My instinct is to play 15/10 12/6, but this is a difficult position and I'm not confident.

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