2022 - Position 193

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Match Play Red leads 1-0 to 5. How should Red play 43?

I had this position as White against Mary Hickey. She correctly selected bar/18 as the correct play.

For money bar/21, 18/15* is clearly correct because of the extra gammons won but losing a gammon when leading 1-0 to 5 is not clever as you arrive at the Crawford Game on an odd score.

Bar21/18 is the best play here while hitting is a small error. With the scores reversed hitting would be correct.