Crawford Thinking

Match Play. Red leads 4-1 to 5 (Crawford). How should Red play 42?
eXtreme Gammon ID: XGID=-BC--AC-C--Ad---ab-bbbBb--:0:0:1:42:4:1:1:5:10

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The first question is, does Red need to split his rear checkers?

Red is behind in the race and White has eleven checkers in the attack zone. White also has a blitzing structure.

Those

This is really an exercise in logic. While the blitzing play 5/4(2)*, 3/2(2)* is superficially attractive that move does not solve Red’s main problem.

That problem is the Red checker