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Match Play. Red leads 3-0 to 7. How should Red play 31?
Pay me now or pay me later?
It is not even close - paying now with 15/14, 15/12 is correct by a country mile.
6/3, 2/1 is a magnitude 3.5 blunder.
White’s board will improve and barring doubles Red will be breaking his 15-pt next time.
A large part of being successful at backgammon is learning to play the odds and then accepting defeat gracefully when you lose.
PAY NOW!!
Hi Chris, I chose the alternative 'pay now' approach of 15/11, which seemed to me to endure the same number of shots but with more duplication of the key 4 covering number. Where did this feature in the scheme of things? Much Obliged! SiD