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It's a little hard to generalize, but for question 1, you often want to disconnect the checkers (so keep them more than 6 apart) so as to give your opponent fewer immediate double hits and longer term attacking chances, unless there's a blot in your opponent's board in which case you don't mind the extra attack risk so much, so it's nice to have the checkers connected for return shots and the possibility to make the outfield point.
Edit: I should also mention that duplication stuff also tends to matter here, so yeah, it can be complicated and hard to generalize.
Last edited by _Z_; 06-14-2024 at 12:03 PM.