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2020 - Position 46

  • Writer: Chris Bray
    Chris Bray
  • Mar 13, 2020
  • 1 min read

Updated: Mar 16, 2020


XGID=-a-B--DBCa--cB---b-db-b-B-:0:0:1:42:0:0:3:0:10


Money Play. How should Red play 42?


This is another positional type where bot rollouts have clearly established the correct strategy.

Giving up the mid-point for a hit when you are outboarded is the wrong concept.


Red needs to look at this as a potential prime-versus-prime game. The correct move is 8/4, 6/4, creating a broken five-point prime, with the idea of trying to subsequently make the 5-pt though of course the dice may argue with that idea.

 
 
 

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