Opening roll · 4-2

4-2 — The Four Point

Best play: 8/4 6/4

The 4-point is nearly as good as the 5. An inner point now pays for the whole game.

CHARACTER · QUIETLY STRONG · AUTOMATIC

Players

Who made it theirs.

Ivory dice on a green leather backgammon board in warm lamplightUNITED STATES
Kit Woolsey

1943– · Match-equity mastery

World champion and theorist of match play — his equity tables and cube framework made score-aware decisions a science.

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