- March 18, 2019
After the second roll there are about 600 positions. When it gets to third roll there are many thousands so you cannot learn them off by heart, instead you have to learn the appropriate
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- March 12, 2019
What could be easier than the opening roll?
- February 27, 2019
This is a lesson in match-play thinking. Clearly this is a huge pass for money but the match score scenario is very different.
- February 26, 2019
The key point in this position, which may not be immediately obvious, is the gammon percentage won by Red after each play
- February 20, 2019
Without an extensive knowledge of reference positions this is a difficult problem. If you have seen something like this before it makes life a lot easier!
- February 19, 2019
This type of position is fairly common so it is best to know how to deal with it.
- February 12, 2019
For money this would be a very premature redouble but at this match score the cube is valueless to White.
- February 5, 2019
This is not a very difficult problem but Red went astray over the board by playing 24/21, 8/4, which is far too big a play.