🚀 go-pugleaf

 Mark Damish (damish@ll.mit.edu) wrote:
: 
: The cube is in an 'unusual' state as this position is posted!
: 
: Your oppenent is ahead 3-0 in a 5 point match and has offered a double
: which has been accepted. I Think that the immediate response after deciding
: to accept the double, is to throw it right back at him!

If there are no stakes there is no question about it. If you lose, you 
lose the match anyway. If you win, well,
tough luck for your opponent. If you play for big money/diff pts, then there
are other considerations, of course.

: 
: This raises a question for me: If I am 2 points away from winning a match
: and my oppenent has few points and is expected to redouble immediatly,
: under what conditions should I throw the initial double, if any?

I would be very careful. You have to be THE favourite when/if you double.
Not only you have the risk of losing 4 pts., but you also have the added
risk of losing a gammon. If the opponent accepts, you're 100% sure 
he/she will redouble. It's standard procedure.


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Peter Haegglund                    The above are, of course, my own
Dept. of Scientific Computing      opinions. Don't blame the dept.
Uppsala University
Sweden