“Three Great Games”
Rollout of Game 2, Position 14b
From Backgammon: the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw

White to play 5-4.

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 x
Rollout 
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Tom Keith 2013 
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Black owns 4-cube
White rolls 5-4

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

5-4: Game BG   Equity
1 8/3, 5/1 W
L
.8052
.1948
.2248
.0059
.0055
.0001
+0.7566 x 
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

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