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White moves his forced 4 from his 5 point in to his 1 point, and the 5 from his 6 point also to the 1 point. By moving the 5 this way rather than bringing it in from outside, white still has two builders to bear if black decides to break his forward anchor.

6/1, 5/1

8/3, 5/1

Rollout  Tom Keith 2013

Money play Black owns 4-cube White rolls 5-4 1296 games with VR Checker play: 3-ply Cube play: XG Roller

XGID=-AbDbCD-C-----a-----c-bbc-:2:-1:1:54:0:0:0:0

	5-4:		Game	G	BG	Equity
1	8/3, 5/1	W L	.8052 .1948	.2248 .0059	.0055 .0001	+0.7566
2	6/1, 5/1	W L	.7948 .2052	.2109 .0069	.0044 .0001	+0.7146	(0.0420)

“Three Great Games,” Backgammon: the Cruelest Game

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