“Three Great Games”
Rollout of Game 1, Position 15b
From Backgammon: the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw

White to play 3-2.

White brings one man in all the way from the bar, leaving one man out so that he won’t be forced to play a possibly awkward 6 from black’s 9 point.

7/2  *
7/5, 7/4 x
Rollout 
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White owns 2-cube
White rolls 3-2

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XGID=-BBBB-BBb-------Cbac-cbb--:1:1:1:32:0:0:0:0

3-2: Game BG   Equity
1 7/5, 7/4 W
L
.4944
.5056
.0220
.0326
.0013
.0006
+0.1450 x 
2 7/2 W
L
.4909
.5091
.0240
.0314
.0014
.0005
+0.1416 (0.0034)  *
3 6/1 W
L
.4758
.5242
.0112
.0313
.0004
.0005
+0.1006 (0.0444) 
4 7/4, 6/4 W
L
.4771
.5229
.0142
.0372
.0006
.0007
+0.0997 (0.0453) 
5 6/4, 6/3 W
L
.4718
.5282
.0083
.0288
.0002
.0005
+0.0919 (0.0531) 

Three Great Games,” Backgammon: the Cruelest Game

Backgammon: the Cruelest Game (1974), by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw

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