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Position 57, page 89
From Backgammon, the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw
From Backgammon, the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw
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| White to play 2-1. |
Here white has nothing to gain by taking two men off, as he did in the previous diagram. By doing so, he leaves himself in a position of maximum exposure without having achieved any tangible rewards.
In this instance, white should bear off one man from the 3 point. Admittedly, he is still open to being hit if black fails to come in and he then rolls any double except double 1’s. Even so, at the moment, it is over 90 to 1 against black hitting white; even if he does, white will have borne off a minimum of seven men (if he rolled double 2’s) and with any larger double, he will have borne off nine men.
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Rollout
 Tom Keith 2013 |
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Money play Black owns 2-cube White rolls 2-1 1296 games with VR Checker play: 3-ply Cube play: XG Roller |
XGID=aECC------------a-bcbbbb--:1:-1:1:21:0:0:0:0
| 2-1: | Game | G | BG | Equity | ||||
| 1 | 3/off |
W L |
.9941 .0059 |
.2395 .0000 |
.0004 .0000 | +1.2262 |
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| 2 | 2/off, 1/off |
W L |
.9713 .0287 |
.2529 .0000 |
.0008 .0000 | +1.1841 | (0.0421) | Not |
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