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Position 35b, page 61
From Better Backgammon, by Tim Holland
From Better Backgammon, by Tim Holland
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Should White double to 4? |
It is unlikely that I will be able to bear any more men off before I am forced to open my board (except with the roll of double 1s or 2 and 1). Thus, the pendulum has swung to Black so that he is probably favored to win more than 50 percent of the time.
Rollout
 Tom Keith 2013 |
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Money play White owns 2-cube White on roll 1296 games with VR Checker play: 3-ply Cube play: XG Roller |
XGID=aDCBBBB---------------bbb-:1:1:1:00:0:0:0:0
| Cube Action | Game | G | BG | Equity | |||||
| No double |
W L |
.3923 .6077 |
.0000 .0000 |
.0000 .0000 | −0.0816 |
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| Double | Take |
W L |
.3904 .6096 |
.0000 .0000 |
.0000 .0000 | −0.7653 | −0.7653 | (0.6837) | |
| Drop | +1.0000 | ||||||||
White is not good enough to redouble
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