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“Three Great Games”
Rollout of Game 3, Position 11b
From Backgammon: the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw
Rollout of Game 3, Position 11b
From Backgammon: the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw
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White makes his own 4 point with two men from his bar point and moves one from black’s 12 point to white’s 10 point and one from black’s 1 point to black’s 4 point.
There are many ways of playing these double 3’s. With two of black’s men on the bar already and a four-point board, white could have made the 1 point, thereby sabotaging black’s back game entirely. Admittedly it is an awkward and unnatural move to make, but well worth considering in this instance. But having rejected it, white surely should have started his bar with the fourth 3, rather than the weak and aimless move up to the 4 point in black’s board.
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Rollout
 Tom Keith 2013 |
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Money play Black owns 2-cube White rolls 3-3 1296 games with VR Checker play: 3-ply Cube play: XG Roller |
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| 3-3: | Game | G | BG | Equity | ||||
| 1 | 13/4*, 7/4 |
W L |
.6784 .3216 |
.4217 .0383 |
.0727 .0000 | +0.6766 |
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| 2 | 24/21, 13/10, 7/4*(2) |
W L |
.6688 .3312 |
.4144 .0405 |
.0704 .0020 | +0.6327 | (0.0439) |
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| 3 | 24/21, 8/5, 7/4*(2) |
W L |
.6649 .3351 |
.4153 .0390 |
.0686 .0019 | +0.6292 | (0.0474) | |
| 4 | 13/10(2), 7/4*(2) |
W L |
.6586 .3414 |
.4059 .0393 |
.0698 .0019 | +0.5993 | (0.0773) |