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  • A government health warning about premature concession

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 14 15:15:01 2023
    Don't trust players who make shrug-shoulder type gestures encouraging
    you to make a concession -- for example to resign a single or accept a
    single instead of a gammon. Check for yourself.
    At Giants levels, these incorrect you're--giving-up-aren't-you gestures
    are probably mistakes but, at lower levels, this can be very deliberate.
    At lower levels, a player might see that 44 fails to bear off any checkers and attempt to avoid the risk of a gammon loss by conceding a single.

    Paul

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