“Three Great Games”
Rollout of Game 2, Position 10a
From Backgammon: the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw

Black to play 6-2.

Black has to enter on the 2, and to avoid breaking his forward anchor must play the 6 from his 7 point to his 1 point. Black is now in a very bad position.

bar/23, 7/1
Rollout 
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Tom Keith 2013 
Money play
White owns 2-cube
Black rolls 6-2

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Checker play: 3-ply
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XGID=-BAB-BBA--a-b----cadbBbB-A:1:-1:1:62:0:0:0:0

6-2: Game BG   Equity
1 bar/23, 7/1 W
L
.1341
.8659
.0116
.3104
.0002
.0143
−1.1958 x  *
2 bar/23, 21/15 W
L
.1612
.8388
.0312
.4449
.0009
.0337
−1.2615 (0.0657) 

Three Great Games,” Backgammon: the Cruelest Game

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

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