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Position 49a, page 90
From Better Backgammon, by Tim Holland
From Better Backgammon, by Tim Holland
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| White to play 5-1. |
If, as a result of having seen Position 49, you made the correct move of bearing one man from the 5 point and moving one man to White’s 4 point, then, in fact, it wasn’t such a tough problem after all.
Hopefully, these two problems have helped train you to recognize these situations whenever they may occur. If you are alert, you will think before you move; the result will be that you won’t have to say to yourself, “I should have moved that last 3 and 1 differently.”
This brings to mind a favorite quote: “For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ‘It might have been!‘” That could have been said as a result of a careless backgammon move.
Rollout
 Tom Keith 2013 |
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Money play Black owns 2-cube White rolls 5-1 1296 games with VR Checker play: 3-ply Cube play: XG Roller |
XGID=-bBBBBD------------bbbbbc-:1:-1:1:51:0:0:0:0
| 5-1: | Game | G | BG | Equity | ||||
| 1 | 5/4, 5/off |
W L |
.8993 .1007 |
.1628 .0000 |
.0055 .0000 | +0.9236 |
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| 2 | 6/off |
W L |
.8806 .1194 |
.1876 .0000 |
.0075 .0000 | +0.9086 | (0.0150) |
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