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Position 67, page 111
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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Should Black double to 4? |
Does black redouble? Not yet. It is true that black is ahead in a race, and if no doubles are thrown, he will win. But if black releases the doubler now and white rolls a double and black does not, white can redouble and black will have to drop.
A sound rule to follow about redoubling when bearing off: If both players have five rolls left (that is, ten men positioned on the lower points), wait. You may consider redoubling with four rolls left, depending on your opponent, and you must always redouble with three.
Rollout
 Tom Keith 2013 |
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Money play Black owns 2-cube Black on roll 1296 games with VR Checker play: 3-ply Cube play: XG Roller |
XGID=-ECB------------------dcc-:1:1:1:00:0:0:0:0
| Cube Action | Game | G | BG | Equity | |||||
| No double |
W L |
.7734 .2266 |
.0000 .0000 |
.0000 .0000 | +0.8689 | (0.1210) |
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| Double | Take |
W L |
.7734 .2266 |
.0000 .0000 |
.0000 .0000 | +0.9899 | +0.9899 |
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| Drop | +1.0000 | ||||||||
Black should redouble and White should take
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