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Backgammon => Fibsboard Forum Matches => FFM 18 => Topic started by: stiefnu on May 14, 2014, 09:30:16 PM

Poll
Question:
Option 1: 24-20, 9-3
Option 2: 24-20, 11-5
Option 3: 24-14
Option 4: 24-20, 7-1*
Option 5: 5-1*, 7-1
Option 6: 9-5, 11-5
Option 7: 7-3, 11-5
Option 8: 11-7, 9-3
Title: Fibsboard Forum Match 18 Game 4 Move 20 Herd to move
Post by: stiefnu on May 14, 2014, 09:30:16 PM
juanz opted to enter with the 1 and clear up the blot on his 8-pt, rather than hit loose.

The Herd now has 64 to play.

5-pt match, juanz 0-4 Herd, Crawford
Pipcount: juanz (red) 128, Herd (black) 114

Steve
Title: Re: Fibsboard Forum Match 18 Game 4 Move 20 Herd to move
Post by: Julia_H on May 15, 2014, 12:09:37 PM
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I don't like making 1. We don't need gammons and we're not going to get many more anyway with juanz anchored, it's no safer, it takes two men away from the task of closing the four point, and it leaves us vulnerable to busting our position with 55 and 66.
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Title: Re: Fibsboard Forum Match 18 Game 4 Move 20 Herd to move
Post by: ah_clem on May 15, 2014, 07:57:30 PM
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Run.  Run like hell.  We'll be 24 pips up in the race and have escaped oru runners while he has three men stuck behind a broken 5-prime.  gammons do nothing for us, so there's no reason to hit on the ace.  Besides, we want his board to crack and hitting doesn't accomplish that.

24/14


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