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OrthodoxPlay
   

Informally, orthodox play is normally correct play, making the largest play first. In a real game, of course, the largest play is not always the best play. (See tedomari.)

In figuring out the size of plays you can suppose that there is an ideal environment? of other plays with closely spaced sizes such that the correct play is the largest play and that, if there is a choice between two local plays of different sizes, there is a play in the environment that has a size in between them. In such a case the correct local play, if any, may depend on the size of the largest play in the environment (the ambient temperature).

Since the normally correct play is not always correct, even locally, we can't just call it correct. But we need a word to describe it, and so we call it orthodox.

--Bill Spight



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