Position 32, page 100
From The Backgammon Book, by Oswald Jacoby and John R. Crawford

White to play 5-5.

You cannot afford to move your three back men on black’s bar point since you will be miles behind in the running game. Instead, you should move one back man twice, to bring him from the black bar point to your eight point; use your other two 5s to move the man from your nine point to your four point and the man on your eleven point to your six point. Black will still be far ahead, but it will not be a running game as yet since he will have to find some way to get his two men on your twelve point past the two men you’ve kept on his bar point. Unless he rolls a double he is going to have to leave a blot for you to aim at.

18/8, 9/4, 11/6  *
11/1, 9/4, 6/1 x
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5-5: Game BG   Equity
1 11/1, 9/4, 6/1 W
L
.3971
.6029
.0348
.0688
.0011
.0003
−0.1698 x 
2 18/8, 11/6, 9/4 W
L
.4090
.5910
.0383
.0502
.0012
.0007
−0.1701 (0.0003)  *
3 18/3, 9/4 W
L
.4047
.5953
.0358
.0509
.0012
.0004
−0.1731 (0.0033) 
4 13/8(2), 11/6, 9/4 W
L
.3534
.6466
.0230
.0357
.0007
.0002
−0.3507 (0.1809) 

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