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“Three Great Games”
Rollout of Game 1, Position 18b
From Backgammon: the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw
Rollout of Game 1, Position 18b
From Backgammon: the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw
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| White to play 6-3. |
A very interesting decision for white: should he leave a 1 shot or a 4 shot? If he leaves a 4 and is not hit, black is slowed up drastically unless he gets both men on white’s 12 point past white with a very good roll. Yet to leave a 4 shot instead of a 1 is giving black 4 extra chances (15 instead of 11).
After much reflection, white decides that black’s position in a potential race is too strong, so he leaves the 4 shot and plays one man all the way to his bar.
Rollout
 Tom Keith 2013 |
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Money play White owns 2-cube White rolls 6-3 1296 games with VR Checker play: 3-ply Cube play: XG Roller |
XGID=-BDBBAB-----b---Ba---cbdc-:1:1:1:63:0:0:0:0
| 6-3: | Game | G | BG | Equity | ||||
| 1 | 16/7 |
W L |
.4156 .5844 |
.0132 .0062 |
.0003 .0000 | −0.0389 |
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| 2 | 16/10, 5/2 |
W L |
.3805 .6195 |
.0113 .0041 |
.0002 .0000 | −0.1141 | (0.0752) | |
| 3 | 16/13, 16/10 |
W L |
.3782 .6218 |
.0080 .0048 |
.0002 .0001 | −0.1252 | (0.0863) | |
| 4 | 16/10, 6/3 |
W L |
.3775 .6225 |
.0093 .0251 |
.0002 .0005 | −0.1423 | (0.1034) |