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Rollout of Game 3, Position 14b
From Backgammon: the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw
Rollout of Game 3, Position 14b
From Backgammon: the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw
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| White to play 4-3. |
White enters on the 3 point and moves from black’s 5 point to black’s 9 point, hitting black’s blot. White still does not relish hitting, but in order to break up black’s countering blockade, he decides to attack. If he had entered on the 4 point and played the 3 to his own 8 point, he could be blocked with low numbers. Double 3’s would be especially disastrous. A good example of going against the usually sound premise of not hitting in a back game. The situation is unique, and white correctly improvised.
Rollout
 Tom Keith 2013 |
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Money play Black owns 2-cube White rolls 4-3 1296 games with VR Checker play: 3-ply Cube play: XG Roller |
XGID=-cbBBBB-B--Aaa-aabbbBA---A:1:-1:1:43:0:0:0:0
| 4-3: | Game | G | BG | Equity | ||||
| 1 | bar/22, 20/16* |
W L |
.6815 .3185 |
.4671 .0123 |
.1827 .0007 | +0.8499 |
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| 2 | bar/21, 11/8 |
W L |
.5937 .4063 |
.3301 .0591 |
.0701 .0028 | +0.3439 | (0.5060) | |
| 3 | bar/22, 11/7 |
W L |
.5912 .4088 |
.3235 .0813 |
.0670 .0036 | +0.3010 | (0.5489) | |
| 4 | bar/22, 8/4 |
W L |
.5669 .4331 |
.3020 .0790 |
.0672 .0035 | +0.2270 | (0.6229) |