FFM17 Game 3 Move 38 Herd to play 31

[Julia_H]

A few greedy moves later...

[ah_clem]

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Normally, it's correct to take a checker off.  With an odd number of checkers off, taking off only one is not as useful since it doesn't save a roll.  6/3 4/2 means we won't have any gaps, so that play should at least be considered.

But I'm going to go with taking one off - after 6/3 4/2 we'll need to take off two every roll to stay ahead of the game and I expect at least one miss.

So, 1/off, and then do we play the 3 from the 6, 5, or 4?  5/2 unstacks and fills in a gap.  6/3 just fills a gap. 4/1 does neither.

I'll go with 5/2.

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[KDP]

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1 off, then for the 3 i'd move 5-2.  that helps unstack our largest stack, fills in the gap on the 2 and leaves an even #of checkers on the 5.

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