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“Three Great Games”
Rollout of Game 1, Position 4a
From Backgammon: the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw
Rollout of Game 1, Position 4a
From Backgammon: the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw
| Black to play 5-4. |
Here black could enter on either the 4 or the 5 point and continue on to hit white on the 9 point, but instead chooses the correct tactic of entering on the 5 and then making this point with the man from the 1 point.
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Rollout
Tom Keith 2013 |
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Money play Centered cube Black rolls 5-4 1296 games with VR Checker play: 3-ply Cube play: XG Roller |
XGID=-aa--aDBC---bC-Aaabd---bAA:0:0:1:54:0:0:0:0
5-4: | Game | G | BG | Equity | ||||
1 | bar/16* |
W L |
.6080 .3920 |
.1589 .1224 |
.0101 .0049 | +0.4007 | ||
2 | bar/20, 24/20 |
W L |
.5741 .4259 |
.1107 .0933 |
.0053 .0027 | +0.2737 | (0.1270) |