Backgammon: Double Tiger Play (Lesson 46)

[@jedimasterbg]

PROBABLY THE COOLEST NAMED BG MOVE :)

[@BackgammonisBeautiful]

Agreed

[@GrumblinDice]

Great video! I refer to the book often. I think the play is double tiger as green is threatening to make both 5 points? 🎲👍🎲

[@BackgammonisBeautiful]

You're correct :)

[@pezn2077]

Nice video - thanks. In the last example I reckon we will have to double hit because otherwise almost all of the opponents non-doubles either hit or make their own 5 point (or both). I think possibly only 6-3 fails to do either. NB (trivia) At 2:34 you refer to a single hit as a "single tiger" but I think in Super Michy World that would be a double hit with one checker ("a double hit is tiger play"). The double tiger is then the double hit with two checkers.

[@BackgammonisBeautiful]

Thanks for watching, Pez. The hit at 2.34 on the right is just a single hit on one checker. Michy doesn't use the term 'single tiger' but I have heard the triple tiger' similarly used jokingly in commentary.

[@bennemann]

In the first position, you explain at 3:50 that the reason the double tiger play is good is because of the cube. But then I gave the opponent ownership of the cube in XG and the safe play of 13/8 became a sligtly *bigger* error, and double hit is still top play. Confused. At 10:10 you said you'd put the answer to the riddle in the video description, but I can't find it there.

[@BackgammonisBeautiful]

It's because it's a D/P after the double tiger play. When the opponent owns the cube, you can also be more aggressive to maximise gammons. I spoke about this in the recent Cube Ownership video. I'll add the right play to video description.

[@WebColorsGr]

I think the answer to the quiz is double tiger because that was the lesson about :) Guess if we hit only 6/5* he can still enter and make his 5 point. We double hit to stop him...

[@BackgammonisBeautiful]

You're correct :)

[@ericwazner6521]

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