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Position 70, page 126
From Backgammon for Blood, by Bruce Becker
From Backgammon for Blood, by Bruce Becker
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The general rule would have you break from the 6 point, moving one man to your 1 point and one man to your 5 point. But this would leave you with three men on your 5 point. Now, if Black does not get in on his next throw, there are seventeen ways you can be in danger on your next roll by having to leave a blot.
However, suppose instead you were to break your 5 point. Assuming Black does not get in on his next throw, you can then be in trouble only in seven ways.
Thus you can see that a third man on your highest point, other than the 6 point, can be a danger and is to be avoided. And don’t forget that if you have three men on your 6 point, you better have three men on your 5 point too.
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Rollout
 Tom Keith 2013 |
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Money play Black owns 2-cube White rolls 5-1 1296 games with VR Checker play: 3-ply Cube play: XG Roller |
XGID=aCBBBBB---------b--bcbbc--:1:-1:1:51:0:0:0:0
| 5-1: | Game | G | BG | Equity | ||||
| 1 | 5/4, 5/off |
W L |
.9446 .0554 |
.1088 .0000 |
.0007 .0000 | +0.9726 |
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| 2 | 6/5, 6/1 |
W L |
.8970 .1030 |
.0841 .0000 |
.0004 .0000 | +0.8298 | (0.1428) | Not |
| 3 | 5/off, 1/off |
W L |
.6630 .3370 |
.1382 .0000 |
.0012 .0000 | +0.3020 | (0.6706) | |
| 4 | 6/off |
W L |
.6644 .3356 |
.1190 .0000 |
.0009 .0000 | +0.2900 | (0.6826) |
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