“Three Great Games”
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.

bar/20, 24/20  *
bar/16* x
Rollout 
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Centered cube
Black rolls 5-4

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5-4: Game BG   Equity
1 bar/16* W
L
.6080
.3920
.1589
.1224
.0101
.0049
+0.4007 x 
2 bar/20, 24/20 W
L
.5741
.4259
.1107
.0933
.0053
.0027
+0.2737 (0.1270)  *

Three Great Games,” Backgammon: the Cruelest Game

Backgammon: the Cruelest Game (1974), by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw

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