The UK Open couldn’t pass us by without yielding at least one position to get the kibitzers arguing, and this one came from Danny Cohen. It’s a money game, and Blue is in that annoying position – you know, where Black has gone to all the trouble to duplicate your 4s, you’ve rolled the requisite double and you find you could happily play an awful lot more than four of them:
If you don’t find the right answer, don’t be too downhearted, you’re among the best of company – this one managed to provoke quite some discussion between Danny and Julian Fetterlein on the one side, and Jon Barnes, Simon Barget and Antonio Sgambato on the other. In years gone by they would probably have been up all night playing it out as a proposition, but nowadays XG Mobile does the hard work…
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