2024 - Position 3

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Match Play. Red trails 0-4 to 7. Should Red double? If doubled, should White take?

 This is a prime versus prime position so of course it must be double and take?

At this score it is very certainly a double and the take is equally clear. At 0-0 or in a money game this is not quite a double although it is close (Red’s aces are duplicated ) and you never know, White might pass.