| Backgammon - Checkers on the way to home!
Backgammon rules, playing tips, techniques, strategies... advice!You may ask what is the big deal in bringing checkers to your home area? In some cases this matter is crucial. Suppose that your 14 checkers are located in your home area, only one is in the outer board, and 2 checkers of your rival are also in your home area blocking "row24". In this case playing properly to prepare an easy bear off is very important and you must be careful. On the above picture you will see 3 checkers on "row19" and "row20", it's critical to have 3 or more checkers in rows until your rival's checkers leave their place! For example if you roll a "6+1" now, bring your checker from outer board to "row19". This move will secure your situation against a "double4" that you may roll!
Your opponent will wait for a blot to hit and if that's realized you will start again from his/her home board, and because that area is full of available checkers, he/she will be able to form blocks quickly and you won't be able to land and escape easily, you may lose time and probably the game!
In the meantime your rival must play small numbers in his/her home board and be careful to have available checkers to play "6", because if all the checkers are in the home board he/she will be obliged to abandon your home area leaving a blot behind. The result won't be happy!
Therefore when you have enemies in your home board it's better to be careful and decrease your opponent's chances.Backgammon - Sacrifice one checker for Gammon!
Backgammon rules, playing tips, techniques, strategies... advice!Look at the below board and suppose that you will play "5+3". If you will hit your rival's checker which is in "row24" and form a block, most probably you will make one game, but if you try to bring more checkers you will increase your chance for a Gammon! Hit the red checker with one from "row19" and leave a blot in "row24", play the "3" from "row17" to "row20" then wait for your rival to roll a "1" and hit your weak checker. You will start again from your rival's home board and hopefully you will hit and send one more checker to the bar, then you will have one enemy in your home board and one waiting on the bar. At that time you have to block "row24" and slowly pile your extra (2 checkers make a block, third is extra) checkers on "row 24 + 23 + 22"
(better is to pile all extras on "row 24") trying to open a row at latest possible and start to bear off.
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In the next pages you will find out two advanced versions of the straight backgammon: "The Jail"
(my favorite) and "The DoubleOne". Enjoy!
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