Thank you for another outstanding video John. At 44:00, although gammons are valuable on a center cube at 2 away 5 away, if the cube ever gets turned the gammons become nullified and the opponent's gammons become valuable as they take her to the Crawford game. One must consider wins and gammons both at the current cube level and the next one.
yes that makes sense, but in this particular position the game would have to turn substantially for the opponent to risk cubing us knowing we are 2 away, equally, being 2a would make us fairly circumspect regarding offering the cube. so I think/feel that being 2a dictates we go for for the gammon if possible leaving the 5pt slotted does not seem overly risky given the rewards when we are not hit by the oppo especially at the 3-0(5) score im very happy to play 11/7 6/4(2) again even knowing what i know now
Thank you for another outstanding video John. At 44:00, although gammons are valuable on a center cube at 2 away 5 away, if the cube ever gets turned the gammons become nullified and the opponent's gammons become valuable as they take her to the Crawford game. One must consider wins and gammons both at the current cube level and the next one.
yes that makes sense, but in this particular position the game would have to turn substantially for the opponent to risk cubing us knowing we are 2 away, equally, being 2a would make us fairly circumspect regarding offering the cube.
so I think/feel that being 2a dictates we go for for the gammon if possible
leaving the 5pt slotted does not seem overly risky given the rewards when we are not hit by the oppo
especially at the 3-0(5) score im very happy to play 11/7 6/4(2) again even knowing what i know now