Position 47, page 129
From The Backgammon Book, by Oswald Jacoby and John R. Crawford

White to play 6-3.

You have a number of ways to play that roll, but none is very good. The best of a bad lot is to make your bar point with the 6, and to use the 3 to bring a man from the black one point to the black four point.

13/7, 24/21  *
13/7, 8/5* x
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6-3: Game BG   Equity
1 13/7, 8/5* W
L
.3315
.6685
.0613
.2684
.0032
.0198
−0.8427 x 
2 24/18, 7/4 W
L
.2936
.7064
.0569
.1867
.0021
.0086
−0.8789 (0.0362) 
3 24/18, 21/18 W
L
.3142
.6858
.0593
.2602
.0027
.0154
−0.9277 (0.0850) 
4 24/21, 13/7 W
L
.2708
.7292
.0434
.2116
.0017
.0089
−1.0000 (0.1573)  *

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