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Strategies for the Advanced Level
March 29th 2006
Advanced Level refers to a point from where you can start winning. The basic winning strategy depends upon three factors
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Strategy for Beginners
March 27th 2006
As a beginner, you need to focus on the key objective of the game. In a nutshell, the objective is to bring all the checkers to your inner board and to finally start bearing them off.
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Ploys and Plans
Almost before you go online, having a plan is essential to developing a game plan. There is of course no way to predict the rolls or even the passage of play of your opponent but coming into a game dead cold without some sort of idea is tantamount to a losing move.
Even if you do eventually lose the first game, restricting your loss to maybe just one or two points by using a doubling strategy can make your opponent more nervous than you anticipate. Avoid a gammon at all costs, so as to keep your opposition on edge.
Should you be ahead in a set, play cautiously there's also more chance to win that way as you can be more adventurous accepting a double even when you're behind.
Try to curb aggressive moves, doubling, accepting a double or declining a double if losing the game takes your opponent to the Crawford Rule game or one point from winning the set.
At this point you have less than a 25 percent chance of winning the set because you would then need to win at least two games in a row to win the set due to the Crawford rule.
If your opposition is going to win the set by winning the game, double and go all out to win the game. Losing a gammon or backgammon at this point won't matter anyway, as you'll lose the set by losing the game, points become immaterial then...
On average 1.8 points are won each game due to doubles, gammons and backgammons. An average 11 points are won each set, usually seven by the winner and four by the opponent. That leaves six to seven points per set.
Normally you have to win four games to win the set, so in theory you can lose three games and still be capable of coming back and winning. So if you are behind don't worry you can always get back to win in the end.
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