Position 55b, page 137
From The Backgammon Book, by Oswald Jacoby and John R. Crawford

White to play 1-1.

Suppose that instead of having two men on the bar, black had only one man on the bar and the other was already in his home board. Now your correct play would be to bear those four men from the one point. You need to hurry now to win that gammon, and the slight risk involved would be worth taking.

1/off(4)
Rollout 
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Black owns 2-cube
White rolls 1-1

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XGID=aFCBBB------a-----bcbbbb--:1:-1:1:11:0:0:0:0

1-1: Game BG   Equity
1 1/off(4) W
L
.9886
.0114
.2981
.0000
.0009
.0000
+1.2694 x  *
2 2/off, 1/off(2) W
L
.9856
.0144
.2165
.0000
.0005
.0000
+1.1814 (0.0880) 

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