2024 - Position 88

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Match Play. Red trails 3-4 to 7. How should Red play 54?

This one is straightforward. Trailing by 38 pips after the roll Red needs contact.

Bar/20, 13/9 is way too passive. Bar/20/16 makes it more difficult for White to safely tidy up his blot on Red’s bar point.

Anything other than bar/20/16 is a double blunder.