"A Single-Baulk"

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SAFETY PLAY

A Single-Baulk

A Double-Baulk

A Complex Problem

When to Play for Safety

A Useful Shot to Know

When to Pot the White

An Ideal Double-Baulk

Before answering my question, I will digress to remark that if the red was somewhere near the baulk cushion as indicated by the cross in my diagram, then you have a typical illustration of "safety play made easy." You pot the white smartly enough to bring your ball back to where you can command the red very comfortably, and arrange a double-baulk you ought to profit by. But, with the red as shown in Fig. 37, you are faced by a complicated problem. If you pot the white and leave a single-baulk, your opponent, if a good stroke player, has a distinct chance of running through the red into the top pocket, and making a break off your safety move. If his stroke play is too weak for him to take a chance with the run-through, he can run a coup into a pocket, give you three points, and compel you to play at the badly-placed red under the rule limiting consecutive misses, which gives him the best of the argument, because you gave the first miss to leave your single-baulk.

Obviously, therefore, you stand to lose by potting the white and giving a miss in baulk, unless you can give your miss so cleverly that your ball is left exactly where you can play the run-through off the red. This is a very, very difficult thing to do, and when you have done it, you still have your run-through to make in reply to a coup. You may not have to make it if your opponent gives a miss covering the red, or if he gives an astute miss in baulk which hampers you when attempting the run-through. The latter is a risky shot for him to try, but the possibility is there if he cares to accept it; which he may do in the improbable event of your giving a miss clever enough to command the run-through in the event of his running a coup.

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