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What is "the zone"?
Posted By: Henrik Bukkjaer In Response To: What is "the zone"? (Tom Keith)
Date: Friday, 17 June 2011, at 9:47 p.m.
..and for calculating the best defensive play for the player being blitzed!
If you are considering splitting your back men to a certain point, it matters if there are x men in the zone or not. If you are contemplating whether to step up or go deep from the bar, with a roll of 3-1 and a single man on 24, etc.
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Regarding the dead checkers, I agree Stick it's not really that relevant. I just added it for academic reasons because we were discussing the definition. Also it might help beginners to understand the whole idea of zone stuff better, if they by the definition is explicitly forced to consider only "live" checkers that are either making inner points, or threatening directly to make inner points.
Actually it was another thing that I thought of: Can you have checkers in the zone, which should not be counted as such? I had two scenarios in mind - one less likely than the other: The soon to be dead checkers (such as the fifth checker on the deuce with an open ace) and the checkers more than on or two at the most distant point in the zone (like if you had 4 checkers on the 11th, in Sticks "Position 2"). Again it's somewhat academic to discuss, I know...
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Stick - regarding a position with zone relevance and dead checkers? You're right, they don't come up that often. But if you're blitzing after a double-5 it could come up. At least indirectly if you have an option to play pick and pass in order to keep the blitz going but burying one of your checkers in the process. You could state that one argument against such a play, is that you remove a checker from the zone!
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Tom: I think there exists plenty of real life examples, where the correct play is to shift a point in order to bring more checkers in the zone when you are getting near closeout.
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