Now let's look at another Situation. You are behind, and you have been forced into a back game. The cube is at 2 and you have it. The match is up to 9 points and Black is leading 5-1. On the back game, Black, in a money game, would double you now if he owned the cube, to make you pay for the chance of pulling the game out of the fire. But here you should double him! If Black wins the game at all, he will probably win a gammon anyway, and with it the match. The last thing he wants is to have the stakes increased. It cannot help him to win a gammon at 4 rather than at 2. But it does very much help you to win a single game at 4 rather than 2. So you must double. It's odd, isn't it? In a money game he should double you if he could, and you should drop. Yet in a tournament at this score, in exactly the same position, you double him. He should accept, of course, but he won't be happy to 'get the cube' (i.e. be doubled).
Now think about another problem. You are leading 3-1 in a match up to 5 and the game Swings in your favour. You have a definite chance of winning a gammon, but you could quite easily still lose the game. Normally, in a money game, you would double at this stage. Probably Black would drop, because he would be afraid of losing 4 points. But now Black could not care less whether he loses 2 points or 4. It does not matter to him in the least that there is a danger of losing a gammon if he accepts, since he will lose the match anyway if he loses a single game. Do you realize what Black is going to do, if he does accept? He will redouble you straight back to 4, whatever the position. The whole match is now going to depend on this game, irrespective of whether it's a gammon or a single game. So the right policy is not to double him, but to play on, going all out for a gammon. If he does offer you a double, you must accept but change your tactics. You have no interest in winning a gammon now because a single game will win the match for you. But you must still avoid losing a gammon, because that would cost you the match.