- September 24, 2024
This position arises after Red 54 (24/20, 13/8), White 66 (24/18(2), 13/17(2).
Interestingly, of those who commented nobody chose what XG considers to be the best play which is 24/22,
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This position arises after Red 54 (24/20, 13/8), White 66 (24/18(2), 13/17(2).
Interestingly, of those who commented nobody chose what XG considers to be the best play which is 24/22,
8/2 looks nice for one roll but leaves far too many crashing numbers on subsequent. It would be a bad error.
Therefore, the back checkers must get moving. The question is how?
With all
At this score Red is in a gammon go situation so needs to create some gammon chances if at all possible. A mutual holding game is not the right game plan. At most scores 24/21(2) would form
This position occurs after Red starts with a 61 (13/7, 8/7) and White replies with double aces (8/7(2), 6/5(2). How should Red now play this 32?
White has the start of a prime while Red
Red has an excellent position for the Crawford Game. At this score Red should be playing gammon save and the fact that Red holds the opponent’s golden point plays perfectly to that plan.
This is not an easy problem because at first sight the answer is anti-thematic.
Red’s problem is the stranded rear checkers so the solution must involve moving one of them. Shuffling
This position came up in a group beginners session last week and as 50% of the class got it wrong I thought it was worth posting. Based on the responses on the USBGF Facebook page I was correct
24/17 leaves White 24 shots but not all of those will win the game although Red will lose some gammons. Note that White will still have a lot of work to do to close out both Red blots and escape