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Backgammon – Three Basic Plans
In astonishingly simple terms, there are 3 main tactics used. You must be agile enough to hop between game plans almost instantly as the course of the match unfolds.
The Blockade
This is composed of building a 6-thick wall of checkers, or at least as deep as you can achieve, to barricade in the competitor’s pieces that are located on your 1-point. This is deemed to be the most adequate tactic at the start of the match. You can build the wall anywhere inbetween your eleven-point and your 2-point and then shift it into your home board as the match progresses.
The Blitz
This is composed of closing your home board as fast as as you can while keeping your challenger on the bar. For example, if your opposer rolls an early two and shifts one piece from your 1-point to your 3-point and you then roll a 5-5, you are able to play six/one six/one 8/3 eight/three. Your opposer is then in serious calamity seeing that they have 2 checkers on the bar and you have closed half your home board!
The Backgame
This course of action is where you have 2 or more pieces in your opponent’s home board. (An anchor spot is a point occupied by at a minimum two of your pieces.) It would be employed when you are decidedly behind as this action much improves your circumstances. The strongest areas for anchor spots are near your competitor’s lower points and also on adjacent points or with one point in between. Timing is important for an effective backgame: besides, there’s no reason having two nice anchor spots and a complete wall in your own inner board if you are then required to break apart this straight away, while your opposer is shifting their pieces home, taking into account that you do not have any other spare checkers to move! In this case, it is more favorable to have checkers on the bar so that you are able to preserve your position up until your competitor gives you a chance to hit, so it may be a good idea to try and get your opposer to get them in this case!
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