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Originally Posted by uberkuber
Question: If White fails to enter on the 3-pt and Black has a chance to make the 3-pt, should he complete his 6-prime? Would he then have the edge in a prime vs prime battle? Or is it too dangerous that White fans a few times and regain the edge in the aforementioned prime battle?
It really depends on the timing. If white rolls an immediate 22, his timing is immediately all gone and I probably make the 3 point at the earliest opportunity. (But that might not even be right... white will be "forced" to use any 1 to move up to the edge of the prime, and I *still* don't think I mind being on the bar.)
If white enters only one checker with a 1x, I leave the blots open if at all possible. Basically, I really, really, really want to be on the bar after this roll. With white having two checkers to escape and very few spare pips on his side of the board, I'm willing to risk disaster combinations like white rolling 23 to anchor on the front of the prime, followed by 6x/6x to escape both checkers and leaving me with 2 behind his 6-prime and one on the bar.
I seem to recall an example somewhere where you had a priming battle in which both players were out of time and about to crunch. The question was something like "what would be your best roll?" And the author concluded that the best roll would be not to roll at all, but it's too bad you can't do that.