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2020 - Position 200

  • Writer: Chris Bray
    Chris Bray
  • Nov 9, 2020
  • 1 min read

Updated: Nov 10, 2020


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Money play. How should Red play 33?

It is easy to get seduced by 13/1, making another home board point but far, far stronger is 13/7(2) making a five-and-a-half-point prime with White’s two checkers on Red’s 2-pt well and truly stranded.

What perhaps is surprising is that any play other than 13/7(2) is actually a quintuple blunder or worse!

 
 
 

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