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Article #252Re: O to play 1-1
From: Dick King
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 18:38
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 18:38
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In article <C0GG9n.B90.1@cs.cmu.edu> tesauro@watson.ibm.com (Gerald Tesauro (8-863-7682)) writes:
>Also from the same session, here's an even more
>spectacular play by the same player:
>
>24 23 22 21 20 19 | | 18 17 16 15 14 13 +-+
> X X O O O O | | O O O |2|
> X O O O O | | O O +-+
> X O | |
> X | |
> | |
> | |
> | |
> X X | |
> X X X X | |
> X O X X X | |
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 | | 7 8 9 10 11 12
>
>Money game: X to play 3-1
>
>X played 5/2* 24/23 !? Any comments?
>
He needs to make the 23 point for two reasons:
- the back game is a slim but finite reed
- if he's gonna get off the gammon he needs the 23 point as his launch pad --
five checkers on the 24 point is gammon-bait.
He is greatly overtimed [too fast] for a back game; he hopes to do some serious
R&R on the bar.
I agree with the move.
-dk
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!ames!olivea!charnel!rat!kestrel.edu!king From: king@reasoning.com (Dick King) Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon Subject: Re: O to play 1-1 Message-ID: <1993Jan7.183817.212@kestrel.edu> Date: 7 Jan 93 18:38:17 GMT References: <C0D3oC.KD4.1@cs.cmu.edu> <C0GG9n.B90.1@cs.cmu.edu> Sender: news@kestrel.edu (News) Organization: Reasoning Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA Lines: 35 Nntp-Posting-Host: drums.reasoning.com