Position 46, page 128
From The Backgammon Book, by Oswald Jacoby and John R. Crawford

White to play 6-2.

You have the poorer game at this point, but black has a lot of work to do, and your four back men are going to annoy him as he tries to capitalize on his advantage. You won’t be able to hold these four men there forever, and you wouldn’t mind getting still a fifth man back to delay yourself. Therefore, when you roll 6-2, you move one man from the black twelve point to your bar point and a man from your six point to your four point.

13/7, 6/4  *
24/18, 6/4 x
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6-2: Game BG   Equity
1 24/18, 6/4 W
L
.3278
.6722
.0601
.2202
.0020
.0096
−0.7876 x 
2 24/18, 8/6 W
L
.3148
.6852
.0589
.2079
.0026
.0091
−0.8171 (0.0295) 
3 24/22, 24/18 W
L
.3167
.6833
.0573
.2211
.0025
.0076
−0.8195 (0.0319) 
4 13/7, 6/4 W
L
.3192
.6808
.0597
.2160
.0028
.0132
−0.8277 (0.0401)  *
5 24/18, 13/11 W
L
.3192
.6808
.0576
.2489
.0025
.0122
−0.8773 (0.0897) 

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