Position 42a, page 123
From The Backgammon Book, by Oswald Jacoby and John R. Crawford

White to play 5-5.

Bring your two men on the bar all the way to the black ten point.
bar/15(2)  *
bar/20(2), 8/3(2) x
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XGID=-b---BD-BA--eD---b-c-b--aB:0:0:1:55:0:0:0:0

5-5: Game G  BG   Equity
1 bar/20(2), 8/3(2) W
L 		.6715
.3285 		.2268
.0628 		.0090
.0021 		+0.8041 x 
2 bar/15(2) W
L 		.6882
.3118 		.1612
.0622 		.0068
.0016 		+0.7764 (0.0277)  *
3 bar/20(2), 13/8(2) W
L 		.6621
.3379 		.2134
.0624 		.0082
.0018 		+0.7444 (0.0597) 

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