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From The Backgammon Book, by Oswald Jacoby and John R. Crawford
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| White to play 6-2. |
The old-fashioned play was to run, using the full throw to bring one of the two back men out into the black outer board. The modern play is to use the six to move one back man to the black bar point, and to move a man from the black twelve point into your own outer board.
We recommend the modern play, moving a back man from black one point to black bar point, and a man from black twelve point to your eleven point. The alternative we suggest is not the old-fashioned running play. It is yet a third play: move a man from the black twelve point to your own five point. If he is hit, you won’t like it, but if he survives, you have made a start toward securing that most valuable point.
With a 6-2 opening throw we don’t like the running play at all (one man from the black one point to black nine point) since it exposes your blot to a straight 4 or 3-1 or double 2 (a total of fourteen possible shots).
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Rollout
 Tom Keith 2013 |
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Money play Centered cube White rolls 6-2 1296 games with VR Checker play: 3-ply Cube play: XG Roller |
| 6-2: | Game | G | BG | Equity | ||||
| 1 | 24/18, 13/11 |
W L |
.5033 .4967 |
.1370 .1400 |
.0064 .0056 | +0.0050 |
| Modern |
| 2 | 24/16 |
W L |
.5014 .4986 |
.1235 .1420 |
.0057 .0051 | −0.0114 | (0.0164) | Traditional |
| 3 | 13/5 |
W L |
.4936 .5064 |
.1447 .1430 |
.0074 .0074 | −0.0139 | (0.0189) | Alternate |
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