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Strategy--Bearing Off
Help! I consistently lose a bearing off race. Are there any techniques or
guidelines to help me. Sometimes I can be way ahead in the pip count and
still lose. I am a beginning player with a great desire to get better.
Thanks for any advice or pointing me in the right direction.
Have a good one,
Dave
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Donald Kahn writes:
Probably bad luck, which you will have to learn to live with. Every
player gets streaks of it.
Other posters have advised consulting the work of expert teachers. I
agree 100%, and if you are a serious player you must do it; but until
your luck improves you won't get a lot of extra wins.
The point of the game is to play your dice as well as you can, win or
lose. At its best, it is an art form.
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Douglas Zare writes:
The greatest blunder most beginning players make in a race is forgetting to
double. If you are way ahead and have cube access, end the game.
It is very easy in most racing situations to play decently, losing only a
few percent game winning chances. Take two checkers off when you can. Bear
in to the 6,5, and 4 points. Don't put extra checkers on the 1 and 2
points. It is much more important to work on being ahead in the race when
you break contact.
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Strategy--Bearing Off
- Greedy bearoff exception (Stick+, Jan 2011)
- Playing for gammon (Max Levenstein+, Aug 2011)
- Rules of thumb (Rich Munitz+, Oct 2009)
- Wastage (David Montgomery, Apr 1996)
- Wastage--Positions that minimize (Stig Eide, Apr 1996)
- Which gaps to fill (Kit Woolsey, Mar 1996)
- Winning the bearoff race (Dave Flaks+, Jan 2001)
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