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2020 - Position 97

  • Writer: Chris Bray
    Chris Bray
  • May 29, 2020
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jun 1, 2020


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Money Play. How should Red play 31?


23/20, 21/20 is too passive. It allows White to make Red’s bar-point most of the time, from which he could go forward or backward.

Red needs White to commit to a back game and therefore 8/7* will be part of the answer. After that there is very little difference between 23/20 and 12/9 for the 3. The key is to hit with 8/7* to attempt to force White into a back game. If things go well Red can build a prime and force White to crunch his home board but that is only one of very many possible outcomes from the starting position!


Not an easy problem by any means.

 
 
 

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