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2021 - Position 136

  • Writer: Chris Bray
    Chris Bray
  • Aug 11, 2021
  • 1 min read

Updated: Aug 12, 2021


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Unlimited Games. How should Red play 11?


“Four is more than you think”, to quote Kent Golding. You can make a case for shuffling Red’s checker around his bar point in many different ways but bar/24, 9/8, 6/4 is the strongest move here, despite leaving a direct shot.

Everything else is at least an error. This is an excellent learning problem. Most students don’t slot the 4-pt but now you know to follow the wise words of Mr. Goulding.




 
 
 

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