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Black hits white’s blot on the 12 point with a man from white’s 12 point and continues on to his own 10 point. A questionable play. It might have been better if black had split off his own 6 point; there’s no need to take any risks at this particular stage of the game. This is perhaps the only error by either player in the game, and it is a minor one. Still, unless white gets the “miracle roll” of double 5’s, it is doubtful that he would break his anchor to hit black were his next roll, say, 5-1 or 5-2.

13/12*/10

13/12*, 6/4

Rollout  Tom Keith 2013

Money play Centered cube Black rolls 2-1 1296 games with VR Checker play: 3-ply Cube play: XG Roller

XGID=---BBbDB----aCb---bbBbbb--:0:0:1:21:0:0:0:0

	2-1:		Game	G	BG	Equity
1	13/12*, 6/4	W L	.5524 .4476	.1020 .0813	.0031 .0026	+0.1889
2	13/12*/10	W L	.5364 .4636	.1084 .0883	.0037 .0029	+0.1369	(0.0520)

“Three Great Games,” Backgammon: the Cruelest Game

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