Strategic Choices - Snowie, Intuition And The Variables

by Steve Sax
25 January 2001

Steve Sax

Michael Strato: In Position 3, there is something I am curious about. There's nothing that complicated about it, as Green, you should have no trouble winning here. However, you choice was to play this 5-5 roll with 13/3*(2) instead of the automatic-looking 8/3*(2) 7/2(2). Snowie does not agree and so I wonder if there's a special reason for this move?

Move 14 Green
		Pip: 94
		Game 1 5 point match Green-White: Score 0-0
		Pip: 109

#		Ply	Move	Equity
	1	3	8/3*(2) 7/2(2)	61.93%
			0.3% 7.3% 88.9% 11.1% 0.6% 0.0%
*	2	3	13/3*(2)	61.09% (-0.83%)
			0.1% 5.7% 87.5% 12.5% 0.7% 0.0%
	3	3	13/3* 9/4 8/3	60.59% (-1.33%)
			0.2% 5.7% 86.2% 13.8% 1.5% 0.0%
	4	3	13/8 8/3*(3)	60.51% (-1.42%)
			0.2% 5.2% 86.1% 13.9% 0.7% 0.0%
	5	3	9/4(2) 8/3*(2)	60.28% (-1.65%)
			0.2% 5.1% 85.5% 14.5% 0.8% 0.0%

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Steve Sax: In Position 3, Snowie disagrees with my play and I can be convinced that I was wrong as well. When using Snowie as a learning tool one must be careful to not do one of two things

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