Game 5, move 0: Herd to cube?

[diane]

What do you think?...Oh..and why? 

[stiefnu]

Spoiler

For the best possible explanation as to why at 2-away, 2-away one should always cube "at the first possible opportunity" see dorbel's excellent blog of 30th December: http://dorbeldaily.blogspot.com/

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[ah_clem]

And I'll be taking this cube, for all the reasons that Dorbel says.

And if the Herd hadn't cubed, I'd be turning it ASAP myself.  So, we'd wind up with a dead cube at 2 regardless.