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  • A good rule that I learned from Stick

    From Timothy Chow@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 3 09:16:46 2022
    Since I've been bashing Stick a lot recently, I thought I'd
    counterbalance it by featuring a rule that I learned from Stick
    that I have found very helpful over the years, about cube action
    at 3-away/many-away.

    XGID=-baBBCB-A--A-B--bd-cbB-a--:0:0:1:00:4:0:0:7:10

    X:Player 2 O:Player 1
    Score is X:4 O:0 7 pt.(s) match.
    +13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+
    | X O O | | O O X O |
    | X O O | | O O X |
    | O | | O |
    | O | | |
    | | | |
    | |BAR| |
    | | | |
    | | | |
    | | | X |
    | | | X X X X O |
    | X X | | X X X X O O |
    +12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+
    Pip count X: 128 O: 151 X-O: 4-0/7
    Cube: 1
    X on roll, cube action

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    Tim Chow

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Tim Chow on Sun Apr 3 11:10:16 2022
    On Sunday, April 3, 2022 at 2:16:49 PM UTC+1, Tim Chow wrote:
    Since I've been bashing Stick a lot recently, I thought I'd
    counterbalance it by featuring a rule that I learned from Stick
    that I have found very helpful over the years, about cube action
    at 3-away/many-away.

    XGID=-baBBCB-A--A-B--bd-cbB-a--:0:0:1:00:4:0:0:7:10

    X:Player 2 O:Player 1
    Score is X:4 O:0 7 pt.(s) match.
    +13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+
    | X O O | | O O X O |
    | X O O | | O O X |
    | O | | O |
    | O | | |
    | | | |
    | |BAR| |
    | | | |
    | | | |
    | | | X |
    | | | X X X X O |
    | X X | | X X X X O O |
    +12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+
    Pip count X: 128 O: 151 X-O: 4-0/7
    Cube: 1
    X on roll, cube action

    The rule is very googlable. I googled the rule after my posting, not before. If someone googles the rule before posting, but doesn't research the actual position, are they cheating?

    Paul

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Tim Chow on Sun Apr 3 11:06:34 2022
    On Sunday, April 3, 2022 at 2:16:49 PM UTC+1, Tim Chow wrote:
    Since I've been bashing Stick a lot recently, I thought I'd
    counterbalance it by featuring a rule that I learned from Stick
    that I have found very helpful over the years, about cube action
    at 3-away/many-away.

    XGID=-baBBCB-A--A-B--bd-cbB-a--:0:0:1:00:4:0:0:7:10

    X:Player 2 O:Player 1
    Score is X:4 O:0 7 pt.(s) match.
    +13-14-15-16-17-18------19-20-21-22-23-24-+
    | X O O | | O O X O |
    | X O O | | O O X |
    | O | | O |
    | O | | |
    | | | |
    | |BAR| |
    | | | |
    | | | |
    | | | X |
    | | | X X X X O |
    | X X | | X X X X O O |
    +12-11-10--9--8--7-------6--5--4--3--2--1-+
    Pip count X: 128 O: 151 X-O: 4-0/7
    Cube: 1
    X on roll, cube action
    ND/T but I'm not very confident.
    After D/T, the opponent can recube to 4 at any time, to kill your gammons.

    Paul

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