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Backgammon => Fibsboard Forum Matches => FFM 16 => Topic started by: diane on October 21, 2013, 08:56:35 PM
move?
No time like the present.... I'll run.
If I don't I end up breaking my board and then even if I do hit herd it's almost worthless. Plus if I don't run I'm wasting.
sorry..I need a bit more...1 all the way, or both part way?
Unfortunately, I meant run one all the way. So, 21/10 it is. And the first blunder I know I made this match - I may have made other but this is one for sure.
I didn't take enough time on this one - ugh, let that be a lesson to me. Coming out with 2 is clear. It dupes many of the hit and cover numbers (3 and 4) and makes it likely that I safety the next roll if I manage to not get hit. Now I'll likely need to worry about leaving yet another shot even if I manage to not get hit.
btw... Typically "run" is one checker. "Out" would have been both in this situation... And typically unless only one checker could have moved out.
I was 98% sure you meant 1 checker all the way..but since gnu also picked that up as a blunder, I wanted to check...seeing the next roll now - either one would have been bad ;)
When I have a lot of time, like in a match like this, I'm less apt to make errors in general, especially careless ones, especially when I've been fortunate in getting rolls I mostly know how to play. Blech! But they happen. Unfortunately, I've missed worse in live tournaments - only pre-tournaments so far, though.