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"Short play" From:   AJ Address:   dasupahdude@gmail.com Date:   1 July 2012 Subject:   Rule check? Forum:   BGonline.org Forums . 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | | | O O O O | | | | O O O O | | | | O O O | | | | O | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | O | | | | | X | | | | X | | | | X X | | | | X X X X O | | | | X X X X X O | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 X to play 6-4 I ran into this position on gnubg and it said that 6/2, 5/off was the best move but i didn't think that was a legal move, so my question is essentially, is it? Or am I required to do 6/off, 4/off because it uses the most possible pips? Daniel Murphy  writes: > I ran into this position on gnubg and it said that 6/2, 5/off was the > best move but i didn't think that was a legal move, so my question is > essentially, is it? Yes. > Or am I required to do 6/off 4/off because it uses the most possible > pips? No. Prince Barlow  writes: A common name for it is the "short play." Tom Keith  writes: Oswald Jacoby wrote (in a 1981 Las Vegas Backgammon Magazine article, see http://www.bkgm.com/articles/Jacoby/BackgammonHistory/): There were no formal laws in those days [circa 1930] and Wheaton Vaughan, secretary of the Racquet Club Backgammon and Card Committee, decided there should be some. He invited all interested clubs to form a committee and the New York Men's Clubs, the Philadelphia Racquet, and the Longwood Cricket Club all sent representatives, while many out of ten clubs such as the Pacific Union in San Francisco, wrote saying they would accept those new laws. I got on the committee as representative of the Knickerbocker Whist Club, and the committee, largely due to indefatigable work by Wheaton Vaughan, did such a good job that current laws show practically no changes. The big argument was whether or not in bearing off you could play 6-1 by moving a man from the six point to the five point and then bearing him off, or if you had to bear him from the six point and play the one with some other man. Due to strong support by Vaughan, Walter Beinecke, Grosvenor Nicholas, and Phil Randolph, the right decision was made. I was the youngest man on the committee, and while I was in total agreement, I was just one minor vote on the right side.   Did you find the information in this article useful?           Do you have any comments you'd like to add?

 

Terminology

Alphabet soup  (Tom Keith, Apr 2004) 

"Anchor and guard" position  (Chase+, Apr 2010) 

"Back game"  (Marty Storer, Jan 2004) 

"Baffle box"  (garyo+, Mar 2005) 

"Bagai position"  (Timothy Chow, Dec 2012) 

"Banana split"  (Rich Munitz+, June 2011) 

"Banana split"  (Adam Stocks+, Sept 2004) 

"Beavers"  (Sander van Rijnswou, May 1999) 

"Beavers"  (Shuman Lloyd Lee, Aug 1991) 

"Blunder", "whopper"  (Raccoon+, July 2005) 

"Bot"  (Pit Bull+, Mar 2004) 

"Bronstein" clock setting  (rew+, Sept 2012) 

"Calcutta auction"  (Roland Scheicher+, Dec 2001) 

"Chouette"  (Roland Scheicher+, Mar 2002) 

"Cube provocation play"  (Chuck Bower+, Apr 2007) 

"Dance"  (William R. Tallmadge, May 1998) 

"Dropper"  (Robert D. Johnson, Sept 1996) 

"Duplication" and "diversification"  (Simon Woodhead, Nov 1991) 

"Equity"  (Gregg Cattanach, Aug 2000) 

"Equity"  (Gary Wong, Dec 1998) 

"Equity"  (Chuck Bower, Oct 1996) 

"Equity"  (Michael J. Zehr, Mar 1996) 

"Equity", "volatility", "claim", "market"  (Erik Gravgaard, June 1995) 

"Freeroll"  (montygram, Nov 2005) 

"Gammon price"  (Ron Karr, Aug 1996) 

"Gammon rate", "gammon price"  (David Montgomery, June 1995) 

"Gammon-go" (GG) and "gammon-save" (GS)  (Mary Hickey, Feb 2004) 

"Gammon-go" (GG) and "gammon-save" (GS)  (Marty Storer, Oct 2002) 

"Gammon-go" (GG)   (Chuck Bower, Jan 2004) 

"Golden point"  (Daniel Murphy, Dec 2004) 

"Holding game"  (Alan Webb+, Dec 1998) 

"In the box"  (Ken Bame+, Sept 2012) 

International phrase dictionary  (David Allen Sorensen, Sept 1997) 

"Joker"  (Richard Divdesman, Sept 1998) 

"Kamikaze play"  (Bill Patterson+, June 2011) 

"Kauder paradox"  (Carl Tait+, Nov 1995) 

"Latto paradox"  (Jean-Pierre Seiman+, July 2004) 

"Lose your market"  (Shuman Lloyd Lee+, Aug 1991) 

"MCV"  (Mislav Radica+, Oct 2009) 

"PRaT"  (Raccoon+, Jan 2007) 

"Phantom double hit"  (Marty Storer, May 2010) 

"Polish prime"  (Jason Lee+, Jan 2006) 

"Pure play"  (Daniel Murphy, Nov 2000) 

"Pure play"  (Casey Forrest+, Feb 1996) 

"Raccoon"  (Steven Keats, Feb 2011) 

"Root number"  (Ken Bame, June 2004) 

"Russian Bridges"  (leobueno+, Mar 2013) 

"Short play"  (AJ+, July 2012) 

"Speed board"  (Gregg Cattanach, June 2004) 

"Splot"  (mamabear, Apr 2007) 

"Squeeze", "trap play"  (Philippe Michel+, Feb 1997) 

"Suicide play"  (Brian Sheppard, Aug 1997) 

"Swing tournament"  (Carlo Melzi+, Mar 2006) 

"Table stakes"  (Carlo Melzi, Sept 2002) 

"Technical play"  (Adam Stocks+, July 2002) 

"Thematic"  (Beauregard+, Aug 2009) 

"Thorp count"  (Stephen Turner, June 1996) 

"Time," "timing," "checker," "dancing"  (Marty Storer, Apr 1992) 

Turkish names for rolls  (Lars Soezueer, Mar 1997) 

"Vigorish"  (Anthony R Wuersch, Feb 1995) 

"Volatility"  (Michael J. Zehr, June 1998) 

"Wash"  (Hardy Hübener+, Sept 2004) 

"Wash"  (Brian Sheppard, July 1997) 

"Weaver"  (Alan Webb+, May 2000) 

"Zone" of attack  (Matt Reklaitis+, Dec 2007) 

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