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2024 - Position 91

  • Writer: Chris Bray
    Chris Bray
  • May 24, 2024
  • 1 min read

Updated: May 28, 2024



XGID=bA-B--CAC-A-bBb--d-c-b-AA-:0:0:1:00:0:0:3:0:10

 

Unlimited Games. Should Red double? If doubled, should White take?


Not an easy problem. Red has five blots but White has two on the bar.

 

My rule of thumb for such positions is that if my opponent only has two home board poins made then the position is proabably a take. That is tha case here.

White has no weaknesses other than his blots on the bar as the rest of his position is very sound.

 

Clearly Red has a double due to the volatility of the position. His eleven checkers in the zone will work well together provided Red doesn’t hit one of them very soon.

 

The take turns out to be very easy and dropping is a double blunder.

 
 
 

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