Splitting the back men in some fashion is certainly the key and otb I looked quite hard at both 24/18 24/20 and 24/18 8/4. I then decided that both plays looked like tactical suicide and wimped out and made the point.
| 1. | Rollout1 | 24/20 24/18 | eq: -0.502 | 
|  | | Player: Opponent:
 | 38.31% (G:9.92% B:0.32%) 61.69% (G:22.32% B:0.80%)
 | Conf.: ± 0.009 (-0.511...-0.493) - [95.7%] Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes
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| 2. | Rollout1 | 24/18 8/4 | eq: -0.514 (-0.012) | 
|  | | Player: Opponent:
 | 38.21% (G:11.48% B:0.42%) 61.79% (G:22.31% B:1.20%)
 | Conf.: ± 0.010 (-0.524...-0.504) - [4.3%] Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes
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| 3. | Rollout1 | 24/20 13/7 | eq: -0.554 (-0.052) | 
|  | | Player: Opponent:
 | 36.54% (G:10.56% B:0.35%) 63.46% (G:20.37% B:0.93%)
 | Conf.: ± 0.009 (-0.564...-0.545) - [0.0%] Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes
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| 4. | Rollout2 | 24/20 8/2 | eq: -0.557 (-0.055) | 
|  | | Player: Opponent:
 | 36.58% (G:10.93% B:0.30%) 63.42% (G:21.43% B:0.96%)
 | Conf.: ± 0.014 (-0.571...-0.543) - [0.0%] Duration: 1 minute 04 seconds
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| 5. | Rollout2 | 8/2 6/2 | eq: -0.607 (-0.104) | 
|  | | Player: Opponent:
 | 34.65% (G:9.88% B:0.26%) 65.35% (G:21.13% B:0.99%)
 | Conf.: ± 0.011 (-0.618...-0.595) - [0.0%] Duration: 1 minute 02 seconds
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| 6. | Rollout2 | 13/9 13/7 | eq: -0.717 (-0.215) | 
|  | | Player: Opponent:
 | 31.31% (G:8.35% B:0.26%) 68.69% (G:19.46% B:0.95%)
 | Conf.: ± 0.015 (-0.732...-0.702) - [0.0%] Duration: 1 minute 05 seconds
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| 1 2592 Games rolled with Variance Reduction. Dice Seed: 55273061
 Moves: 3-ply, cube decisions: XG Roller
 Search interval: Huge
 
 2 Truncated at 11 moves using 4-ply.
 216 Games rolled with Variance Reduction.
 Dice Seed: 44171799
 Moves and cube decisions: 3-ply Red
 
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