“Three Great Games”
Rollout of Game 3, Position 20b
From Backgammon: the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw

White to play 5-1.

White moves from white’s 0 point to white’s 8 point, and from white’s 11 point to white’s 6 point, refusing to hit, of course.

11/6, 9/8  *
11/10*/5 x
Rollout 
XG logo
Tom Keith 2013 
Money play
Black owns 2-cube
White rolls 5-1
1296 games with VR
Checker play: 3-ply
Cube play: XG Roller
XGID=-bbBCBBbBCaAa----aaca-a---:1:-1:1:51:0:0:0:0

5-1: Game G  BG   Equity
1 11/10*/5 W
L 		.5193
.4807 		.3085
.0107 		.1175
.0004 		+0.2253 x 
2 11/10*, 9/4 W
L 		.5172
.4828 		.3085
.0122 		.1158
.0004 		+0.2166 (0.0087) 
3 11/6, 9/8 W
L 		.5279
.4721 		.2988
.0157 		.0841
.0006 		+0.1968 (0.0285)  *
4 11/5 W
L 		.5179
.4821 		.2941
.0180 		.0886
.0008 		+0.1713 (0.0540) 
5 11/6, 4/3 W
L 		.5132
.4868 		.2900
.0187 		.0871
.0007 		+0.1491 (0.0762) 

“Three Great Games,” Backgammon: the Cruelest Game

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

Backgammon Galore : Books