Backgammon – 3 Basic Strategies
In exceptionally simple terms, there are 3 general game plans employed. You want to be able to switch techniques instantly as the course of the game unfolds.
The Blockade
This involves building a 6-deep wall of checkers, or at least as deep as you might manage, to barricade in the opponent’s pieces that are on your 1-point. This is judged to be the most suitable procedure at the begining of the match. You can create the wall anywhere within your eleven-point and your two-point and then move it into your home board as the game progresses.
The Blitz
This is composed of closing your home board as quickly as as you can while keeping your opposer on the bar. e.g., if your competitor tosses an early two and shifts one checker from your one-point to your three-point and you then roll a five-five, you can play 6/1 six/one eight/three eight/three. Your challenger is then in serious calamity seeing that they have two checkers on the bar and you have locked half your inside board!
The Backgame
This course of action is where you have two or higher checkers in your opponent’s inner board. (An anchor is a position consisting of at a minimum two of your pieces.) It would be employed when you are extremely behind as this action greatly improves your circumstances. The strongest locations for anchors are near your competitor’s smaller points and also on adjoining points or with a single point in between. Timing is critical for an effective backgame: besides, there is no reason having two nice anchors and a solid wall in your own inner board if you are then required to dismantle this straight away, while your opposer is shifting their pieces home, taking into account that you do not have any other additional pieces to move! In this case, it’s better to have checkers on the bar so that you might preserve your position up until your opposer provides you an opportunity to hit, so it may be a wonderful idea to try and get your competitor to hit them in this case!
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