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Glass Bead Game
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Strategy
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1 The House
2 Direct capture
3 Indirect capture
4 Delayed direct
5 Delayed indirect
6 Tempo
7 A big mistake
9 Endgame part 1
10 Endgame part 2
11 Endgame part 3
12 Endgame part 4
13 Endgame part 5


A Correct Defense

Saddling south with an additional and totally useless bead in pit A does three things:
  • It doesn't add to the tempi of south.
  • It defends the single capture possible in pit e.
  • It gives an additional tempo to the gem in pit a.
This proves precisely enough to force south to either overfeed his house (rendering it useless) or sow it ineffectively because pit e is defended.

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