A simple or not so simple cube problem in the endgame, Hope you find it useful. LIKE and SUBSCRIBE. Check out also my The Zone of Contact video (Lesson 88) for related content: • Backgammon: The Zone o...
it's maybe worth explaining why this is "always" a cube for white even if clearing the 6-away point is such a headache. the thing is we have 5 big market losers (11 through 55) and then also market loss when we're forced off our 11 point but then our opponent misses (half of 61 62 63 64, so the equivalent of 4 rolls). So even if our advantage is not that clear, we need to cube this as soon as we can. The only exception is some sort of terribly crunched board and/or an even race (opp can just win the race)
@@BackgammonisBeautiful oh I just meant that the first time I had this position as white, I "knew" that it's hard to clear the point, so I never even thought of cubing. I got 3 or 4 blunders in a row haha. Also, we sometimes forget that a market loser is not just "good roll for me", it can be "I leave a shot but opp misses" or more generally, "I get a normal roll but opp gets a terrible roll".
