“Three Great Games”
Rollout of Game 2, Position 9a
From Backgammon: the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw

Black to play 5-2.

Black enters on the 2 point and continues on out to the bar. Again, he does not make his own 2 point because he is ahead of himself.

bar/18
Rollout 
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Tom Keith 2013 
Money play
White owns 2-cube
Black rolls 5-2

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Checker play: 3-ply
Cube play: XG Roller
XGID=-BAB-BBA--a-ea-----dbBbB-A:1:-1:1:52:0:0:0:0

5-2: Game BG   Equity
1 bar/18 W
L
.3065
.6935
.0757
.2076
.0015
.0106
−0.8348 x  *
2 bar/23, 7/2 W
L
.2964
.7036
.0784
.2045
.0009
.0089
−0.8705 (0.0357) 

Three Great Games,” Backgammon: the Cruelest Game

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

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