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Strategy--Bearing Off
Nothing exciting here but OtB I'd bet at least 99% of the players would
miss this.
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| | | O | OO
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| | | X | XX
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X rolls 4-2.
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happyjuggler0 writes:
Unless O rolls something like 2-1 followed by 3-1, then X will need doubles
to win the game.
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Michael Petch writes:
Yep, I make this error playing too fast. More efficient bear off with
doubles if you bear one off and stack the 2 point.
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Stein Kulseth writes:
4/2, 3/off makes 2-2 work next roll. Nice position.
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Rich Munitz writes:
To be honest I hadn't even thought it possible that it could ever be right
to not bear off two checkers with non-doubles, unless filling a gap from a
stack. And it is even more surprising that it could be right to do so while
wasting a pip.
What's different here is that sacrificing one checker (and one pip) now
when we are now odd, creates the possibility of taking two more checkers
off next roll.
A rare aligning of the planets here.
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Strategy--Bearing Off
- Greedy bearoff exception (Stick+, Jan 2011)
- Playing for gammon (Max Levenstein+, Aug 2011)
- Rules of thumb (Rich Munitz+, Oct 2009)
- Wastage (David Montgomery, Apr 1996)
- Wastage--Positions that minimize (Stig Eide, Apr 1996)
- Which gaps to fill (Kit Woolsey, Mar 1996)
- Winning the bearoff race (Dave Flaks+, Jan 2001)
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