News:

All new Fibsboard.com for 2011 --" your unofficial Forum for all fings FIBS."
New Membergroups, new boards including topical discussions, Campaigns, Culture and Gossip. Photo Galleries, Forum Backgammon vs Top Guest, and much much more.........faster and improved, with sas :)

Main Menu

Ads or Donors?

To our re-subscribers last year.. many thx for your support

Killing Sixes. 3-away, 3-away. Pipcount Red 72, White 88. White to play 4-1. In one form or another, this belongs to a class of positions where the player is bearing in against an anchor and faces the choice of clearing a point or keeping a block. Red, an advanced player who averages PR10.25, played 6/1, keeping the block but burning his last spare. Note that this leaves blots next turn with 6-5, 6-3, 5-4 and 4-3, beware those stripped points! He doesn’t need the block with this big lead and he does better to play 7/6, 7/3, clearing a point that has to be cleared anyway and creating two spares. This blots next turn with 6-1, 5-4 and 4-3, so a little bit safer but the real bonus is that Red doesn’t have to play the other sixes, slowing him down and pressuring White to break her board and/or run one back checker. This is always a feature of bearing in against a 23pt anchor and often, though not always, means that you should clear the 7pt before the 8pt. The match play is an error costing 0.059ppg.