"Hi-yo Stein," she called, "come on over and have a look at this." On the board was this position:
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"Now is that a triple auto?" I asked.
"Yep, this is a position I found myself in at PB's last night. You ever been there?"
"No, but I hear they call it 'Beaver Creek'."
"That's true, the crowd there do have a reputation for loose cubes, sporting takes and unlimited autodoubles. In fact, things have been getting a little out of hand lately, so PB is now enforcing a strict cube limit of 64. Now, in this position it is Blue on roll, what is the correct cube action?"
"No double for sure, that's the trivial part, but am I right in assuming that this didn't stop someone from doubling you?"
"Correct on both counts," Jemimah smiled, "Blue doubles, then it gets interesting."
"Interesting schminteresting, this looks pretty straight forward," I started, but then again almost nothing about Jemimah is entirely straight forward. You know, her eyes are brown, but the left one has a touch of green while the right one has a touch of orange.
