“Three Great Games”
Rollout of Game 3, Position 14b
From Backgammon: the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw

White to play 4-3.

White enters on the 3 point and moves from black’s 5 point to black’s 9 point, hitting black’s blot. White still does not relish hitting, but in order to break up black’s countering blockade, he decides to attack. If he had entered on the 4 point and played the 3 to his own 8 point, he could be blocked with low numbers. Double 3’s would be especially disastrous. A good example of going against the usually sound premise of not hitting in a back game. The situation is unique, and white correctly improvised.

bar/22, 20/16*
Rollout 
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Black owns 2-cube
White rolls 4-3

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4-3: Game BG   Equity
1 bar/22, 20/16* W
L
.6815
.3185
.4671
.0123
.1827
.0007
+0.8499 x  *
2 bar/21, 11/8 W
L
.5937
.4063
.3301
.0591
.0701
.0028
+0.3439 (0.5060) 
3 bar/22, 11/7 W
L
.5912
.4088
.3235
.0813
.0670
.0036
+0.3010 (0.5489) 
4 bar/22, 8/4 W
L
.5669
.4331
.3020
.0790
.0672
.0035
+0.2270 (0.6229) 

Three Great Games,” Backgammon: the Cruelest Game

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

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