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The roll is not as unfortunate as it appears to be. White’s mandatory play is to move the 5 from the bar point to the 2 point and the 2 from the 6 point down to the 4 point. Paradoxically, white’s main strategy is not to advance his men in his inner board. He does not want to establish forward positions. And yet to accomplish this, he must move his men down as far as they will go. This tactic saves him from being forced into playing 5’s and 6’s, gives him breathing space and allows him to delay.

7/2, 6/4

7/5, 6/1

Rollout  Tom Keith 2013

Money play Centered cube White rolls 5-2 1296 games with VR Checker play: 3-ply Cube play: XG Roller

XGID=--ABB-AA-------bbccbcCBAB-:0:0:1:52:0:0:0:0

	5-2:		Game	G	BG	Equity
1	7/5, 6/1	W L	.3432 .6568	.0265 .3945	.0009 .0469	−0.9641
2	7/2, 6/4	W L	.3256 .6744	.0279 .3855	.0008 .0395	−1.0050	(0.0409)
3	23/21, 7/2	W L	.2977 .7023	.0245 .4135	.0008 .0391	−1.0440	(0.0799)
4	6/1, 4/2	W L	.2935 .7065	.0210 .4188	.0005 .0412	−1.0645	(0.1004)
5	23/21, 6/1	W L	.2831 .7169	.0209 .4220	.0006 .0416	−1.0678	(0.1037)

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Backgammon, the Cruelest Game (1974), by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw