- May 4, 2021
This is a demonstration that playing safe in the opening is rarely correct.
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- April 27, 2021
This position is taken from Steiger (Red) versus Magriel (White) at Monte Carlo 1985.
- April 20, 2021
This position is taken from Jeff Ward’s 1982 book ‘Winning is More Fun’. Red was Nack Ballard and White was Kent Goulding and this was the final of the Las Vegas Open.
- April 13, 2021
Is the fact that Red has his 5-pt made enough to change his play from the standard 24/18, 13/11?
- April 6, 2021
Prepare to escape or make our five point?
- March 30, 2021
This is a tricky position. I think if you play on automatic you will choose 24/22, 16/11.
- March 23, 2021
White has a reasonably well-timed 2-3 back game, but her home board could collapse with a sequence of high numbers.
- March 16, 2021
We can quickly reject 8/2, 6/2 which creates an ugly structure and one that is difficult to put back together again.