"A Complex Problem"

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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

From the foregoing you will see that the stroke required in Fig. 37 is by no means the simple "pot the white and give a miss in baulk" proposition it looks like at first sight. It bears a closer resemblance to a minor problem in chess, and its correct solution depends really on the human element. It is mainly a question whether or not you can face the run-through loser with confidence, and, to a lesser extent, whether your opponent can do anything with it if you leave it to him.

There are other considerations to which I have referred, and, in addition, there is always the state of the game to be thought about, a most important matter when a safety move is contemplated. When you think over all this, you will see how difficult and complex safety play really is, and what a mistake it is to conclude that a man can "take it up when he thinks he will," usually to help him to win a handicap heat. At least, that is what he thinks will happen-the direct opposite is far more likely to be the result when the game is played.

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