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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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Backgammon Back off Back off, then run for it.
When walking in the forest and a big brown grizzly bear is close by, the best thing to do is to stand quite still, hoping that he hasn't seen you. He will undoubtedly be able to scent you, so it is wise to just stay as calm and still for long as possible. Don't back off, if you move to back off he could well attack. When he's moved away from you then run like the devil and hope you win the survival race.
Backgammon has a similar dilemma too, especially if you play too cautious a back game. Essentially backgammon is a race game, with a lot of mixed strategies applied to it, back games as the name suggests apply to a defensive structure, which often includes one or more anchors.
The main characteristic of a back game is that the defensive structure includes two or more anchors. Holding both these points for as long as necessary, to force your opponent to bear in or off, hit a late shot and contain the blot behind a prime.
Typically, back game anchors are deep and close together (1-2, 1-3, 2-3, 2-4). Keeping them back delays the winning shot and allows time to prepare a prime to contain the piece(s) you hit. If the defensive structure's two anchors are widely separated (1-4, 1-5, 2-5) or are both advanced (3-4, 3-5, 4-5) either can be known as a back game.
In reality though, these structures don't always turn out to favor the same strategy as deep anchor back games.
However, such plans afford excellent, winning chances, but if your shot comes before you're ready, the result is often a gammon or backgammon loss.
That's a bit like the grizzly picking up your scent and snapping his teeth into you, you just weren't quick enough!
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