“Three Great Games”
Rollout of Game 2, Position 16a
From Backgammon: the Cruelest Game, by Barclay Cooke and Jon Bradshaw

Black to play 4-3.

Black moves a man from the 4 point out to white’s 11 point. Black feels that he can’t afford to spoil his board any further and must break his forward anchor.

21/14
Rollout 
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Tom Keith 2013 
Money play
Black owns 4-cube
Black rolls 4-3

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Checker play: 3-ply
Cube play: XG Roller
XGID=-CBBAC-----------b-bcBeBc-:2:1:1:43:0:0:0:0

4-3: Game BG   Equity
1 21/14 W
L
.2071
.7929
.0066
.2495
.0001
.0058
−0.7471 x  *
2 5/1, 4/1 W
L
.1568
.8432
.0030
.2345
.0000
.0033
−0.8618 (0.1147) 

Three Great Games,” Backgammon: the Cruelest Game

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

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