Bray's Learning Curve
Each week, author Chris Bray lends his sharp insight and easy-to-understand analysis to help you improve your game.
Chris is the author of multiple backgammon books, including Backgammon for Dummies, and is the backgammon columnist for The Times of London.
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Three checkers on the bar is normally a recipe for a swift drop
Before the advent of the bots this roll would have been played bar/21*, 8/6 and nobody would have known that they were making a big error.
Over the board, Red moved 22/16, 8/3 with this 65. This seems logical, escaping one of the rear checkers and moving the blot on his 8-pt to safety.
Match play doubling is still poorly understood.
This is a type of position that I often see misplayed and not only by beginners!