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“Three Great Games”
Rollout of Game 1, Position 12b
From Backgammon: the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw
Rollout of Game 1, Position 12b
From Backgammon: the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw
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White enters on the 5 point and continues out to the 8 point. A good shot for white; if he had been forced to hit black’s blot on the 2 point and not been able to cover those in his board, it could have been the beginning of the end.
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Rollout
 Tom Keith 2013 |
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Money play White owns 2-cube White rolls 5-3 1296 games with VR Checker play: 3-ply Cube play: XG Roller |
XGID=-AABBaBDa---b---B-bc-cba-A:1:1:1:53:0:0:0:0
| 5-3: | Game | G | BG | Equity | ||||
| 1 | bar/20, 7/4 |
W L |
.4353 .5647 |
.1220 .1613 |
.0052 .0051 | −0.0334 |
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| 2 | bar/17 |
W L |
.4231 .5769 |
.1077 .1726 |
.0071 .0068 | −0.0803 | (0.0469) |
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