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Position 46, page 75
From Backgammon, the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw
From Backgammon, the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw
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| Black to play 5-1. |
After 5/off, if black moves his 1 from his 5 point to his 4 point, subsequent rolls of double 4’s or a 5-4 will leave a single shot (blot), and the horror roll of 6-5 will leave a double shot.
If, however, black moves his 1 from his 3 point to his 2 point, he has broken the cardinal rule of keeping his high men even and has made himself vulnerable to the potentially disastrous rolls of 6-5, 5-4, 5-3, 5-1, and double 6’s, or four extra single shots, but no double shots.
Which is correct? Against White’s prime we would move down from the 5 to the 4 point, risking a double shot.
Rollout
 Tom Keith 2013 |
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Money play White owns 2-cube Black rolls 5-1 1296 games with VR Checker play: 3-ply Cube play: XG Roller |
XGID=-bBCBDBa---------bbbbbb---:1:-1:1:51:0:0:0:0
| 5-1: | Game | G | BG | Equity | ||||
| 1 | 5/4, 5/off |
W L |
.8166 .1834 |
.4129 .0000 |
.0429 .0000 | +1.0079 |
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| 2 | 5/off, 3/2 |
W L |
.7533 .2467 |
.3872 .0000 |
.0393 .0000 | +0.8254 | (0.1825) |
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