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Position 72, page 154
From The Backgammon Book, by Oswald Jacoby and John R. Crawford
From The Backgammon Book, by Oswald Jacoby and John R. Crawford
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Should Black double to 2? |
You may wonder why we haven’t suggested that black should double at this stage of the game. Clearly he has an advantage! The trouble is that the game has a long way to go, and experience will teach you that doubling a potential back game too early is a losing proposition. And right now, if black did double we have a very sound basis for accepting.
There are two reasons why we would be able to take the double: first, black has a lot of work to do before he can get around to bearing off; second, we are likely to get several chances to hit blots before black is safe in his home board.
XGID=-b--BbD-CB--bCa--c-eA-----:0:0:1:00:0:0:0:0
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