Re: O to play 1-1

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From: Mark Bisgeier
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 22:47

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tesauro@watson.ibm.com (Gerald Tesauro (8-863-7682)) writes:

>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?

Classic back-game tactic: secure 1/3 or 1/2 (i.e., 24/22 or 24/23) points
and delay, delay, delay.... an additional minor factor is that X has the
cube, gives him some (admittedly unlikely) power... worst outcome for X is
if 0 misses him from the bar... then X is still way too advanced.

-- 

Mark Bisgeier              mdb@netcom.com

        ...Let your mind wander...

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