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Position of the Day 01-09-26 - Holding Game Cube - Rollout

Posted By: Stick
Date: Monday, 12 January 2026, at 6:16 p.m.

In Response To: Position of the Day 01-09-26 - Holding Game Cube - Rollout (Christian munk-christensen)

Like Nack, looking at variants is one of my favorite backgammon pastimes. We have to be careful though...

- Put the straggler on the mid point. This improves the race and while the straggler is probably an asset now, it may quickly turn into a liability costing more Gs.

Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, tossing the straggler to the midpoint does gain us 11 pips in the race while losing coverage but we're still down an amount too much in the race to overcome when the opponent owns the bar point. It's still D/P.

- Take away blue's bar point so there are fewer landing spots.

Yes but this change is massive. You've turned something that is a fairly clear pass into a borderline decision on whether to double or not depending on where you now reasonably put these checkers.

Give blue the 3p in stead of the 4p

This is a good variant. The short explanation isn't that 4p is simply >> 3p, it is that there are now some rolls that would have cleaned the outfield blot up cleanly that no longer do.

Stick

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