OTB I would play 7/3 6/4, as I am a slow thinker.
Let us see how many rolls would leave a blot afte that. If I counted them correctly it is 65 65 54.
The alternative would be 7/1. Again this would leave 65 64 54.
I do not see what else is there. 5/3 5/1, but we would leave a ugly hole on the five point that will bite us later.
7/3 7/5 is very safe for future rolls but we leave one direct shot now.
At this point I fired up GNUbg, so I will not answer this one!
Same thoughts here. 7/5/ 7/3 looks very attractive on the long run, but I wouldn't have the guts to play it, so 7/3 6/4. And now I fire up something different
1. Rollout¹ 7/5 7/3 eq:+0.841
Player: 83.00% (G:23.60% B:1.04%)
Opponent: 17.00% (G:0.80% B:0.03%)
Confidence: ±0.004 (+0.837..+0.845) - [100.0%]
Duration: 6 minutes 54 seconds
2. Rollout¹ 7/3 6/4 eq:+0.754 (-0.087)
Player: 83.04% (G:15.13% B:0.30%)
Opponent: 16.96% (G:1.38% B:0.05%)
Confidence: ±0.003 (+0.751..+0.757) - [0.0%]
Duration: 5 minutes 47 seconds
3. Rollout¹ 7/1 eq:+0.674 (-0.167)
Player: 79.66% (G:14.92% B:0.27%)
Opponent: 20.34% (G:0.88% B:0.03%)
Confidence: ±0.004 (+0.670..+0.678) - [0.0%]
Duration: 6 minutes 08 seconds
¹ 1296 Games rolled with Variance Reduction.
Moves: 4-ply, cube decisions: XG Roller+
Search interval: Huge
eXtreme Gammon Version: 2.19.211.pre-release, MET: Kazaross XG2
And so leaving a shot now it was.
I would not have the guts to play this!
Same. I would consider 7/5 7/3 after seeing that 7/3 6/4 is a bit awkward, but without the quiz factor I end up playing 7/3 6/4 OTB.