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Originally Posted by sdfsgf
How common in practice is the auto-double-at-2away/2away strategy at the intermediate level in your experience? I’m an intermediate and only recently started playing at my local club, but I get a lot of raised eyebrows when I do it, like these guys (who otherwise appear to be decent players, or have at least been playing for a long time) have never even seen it before. (A few have even asked me after the match what I was thinking). I thought this was pretty common knowledge.
Personally, I've played people who "forget" the 2A - 2A cube strategy until it's too late.
Pre-covid I played a club tournament and I doubled early at 2A - 2A and my opponent was shocked.
So in the intermediate player group there is a mix. Some know about it, some don't and even those who have heard of it, it might slip their mind or they fail to cube at the right point.
Although, best play is not to auto-cube. (XG has shown though that auto cubing at that score is almost never that big of an error) I learned the cubing point is when you are a slight favorite and you have any market losing sequences.
