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To show a contrast, here Black’s position is identical to Position 51a. The difference, of course, is the fact that you no longer are “defenseless.” Here it is obviously correct to hit Black’s blot on his bar point.

Rollout  Tom Keith 2013

Money play Black owns 2-cube White rolls 4-3 1296 games with VR Checker play: 3-ply Cube play: XG Roller

XGID=-bBBBBC-----bB--abacbA-b-A:1:-1:1:43:0:0:0:0

	4-3:		Game	G	BG	Equity
1	bar/18*	W L	.7797 .2203	.4453 .0210	.0776 .0007	+0.9684

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Better Backgammon (1974), by Tim Holland