{"id":619,"date":"2023-10-03T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T06:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/?page_id=619"},"modified":"2023-10-03T06:30:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T06:30:53","slug":"seeing-the-obvious","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/index.php\/seeing-the-obvious\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What would you play in this position?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"793\" src=\"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-03-075248-1024x793.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-03-075248-1024x793.png 1024w, https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-03-075248-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-03-075248-768x595.png 768w, https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-03-075248.png 1437w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Black to move 64. The 4 is trivial, but where to play the 6?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:300px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Once XG2 showed me, and I allowed this move to enter my mind, I saw that it&#8217;s clearly the best: the double hit BAR\/21*, 8\/2*. Over the board I immediately excluded this one: two blots in my home board against a four point board of my opponent cannot be correct. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if you do the math it&#8217;s the best move. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"255\" src=\"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-03-081924-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-03-081924-1.png 443w, https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-03-081924-1-300x173.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My move, BAR\/21*, 21\/15, leaves shots with every 4 and every 5; the best move leaves shots with ever 2 and every 4 (note the duplication of the 4 with BAR\/4 and 17\/21). And if white doesn&#8217;t hit, I have a won position with many rolls that hit again or consolidate my board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Backgammon is the only board game I know that allows to make moves, look at the position, and re-consider. I should do this more often. Because sometimes you don&#8217;t see the obvious until you actually look \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would you play in this position? Once XG2 showed me, and I allowed this move to enter my mind, I saw that it&#8217;s clearly the best: the double hit BAR\/21*, 8\/2*. Over the board I immediately excluded this one: two blots in my home board against a four point board of my opponent cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-619","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/619\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gammonrants.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}