🚀 go-pugleaf

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?

Basically I think it is the only move to play.  The 24/23 is a necessity
because even though it is not too likely that O will make the 23 point,
X will come in on a 5/9 chance which is ok but if he doesn't hit the 23
point (11/36 chance of hitting) then O needs to roll a 6 or 7 to make
the point (assuming he hit from the spare piece on 20) or whatever.
Having the prime on the 23-17 points is really really bad for X.  As to
what to do with the 3,  5/2 is also the only alternative.  Getting hit
at this point (on 5 or 2 when O comes back in) is fairly irrelevant and
stacking a third piece on the 1 point is pointless.

Just my thoughts
Billy Shields
alias Gorg