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“Three Great Games”
Rollout of Game 1, Position 10a
From Backgammon: the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw
Rollout of Game 1, Position 10a
From Backgammon: the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw
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Black doubles to 2. Should White take? |
Indeed, black promptly doubles because of these two open men in white’s board, and because white’s timing is bad.
Rollout
 Tom Keith 2013 |
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Money play Centered cube Black on roll 1296 games with VR Checker play: 3-ply Cube play: XG Roller |
XGID=--aBBbDB--A--Bb---bbBbbaa-:0:0:1:00:0:0:0:0
| Cube Action | Game | G | BG | Equity | |||||
| No double |
W L |
.5834 .4166 |
.1215 .0734 |
.0044 .0020 | +0.3210 |
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| Double | Take |
W L |
.5839 .4161 |
.1226 .0750 |
.0043 .0024 | +0.1380 | +0.1380 | (0.1830) |
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| Drop | +1.0000 | ||||||||
Black is not good enough to double