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“Three Great Games”
Rollout of Game 1, Position 14a
From Backgammon: the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw
Rollout of Game 1, Position 14a
From Backgammon: the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw
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| Black to play 5-3. |
There are several choices here. For instance, black could cover his 2 point from his bar point and hit white’s blot on the 5 point, but this would leave five blots open around the board, and if he were hit and could not come in, even for a single roll, he might lose a gammon. Instead he rightly chooses to play conservatively, covering his 8 point with the 5 and making white’s 8 point with the 3.
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Rollout
 Tom Keith 2013 |
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Money play White owns 2-cube Black rolls 5-3 1296 games with VR Checker play: 3-ply Cube play: XG Roller |
XGID=--ABCaCBAb---A---AcbAbbab-:1:-1:1:53:0:0:0:0
| 5-3: | Game | G | BG | Equity | ||||
| 1 | 8/5*, 7/2 |
W L |
.5699 .4301 |
.2421 .2429 |
.0059 .0337 | +0.0177 |
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| 2 | 20/17, 13/8 |
W L |
.5357 .4643 |
.0634 .0476 |
.0021 .0015 | −0.0705 | (0.0882) |
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