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Best anchors for strongest backgame?
Posted By: kruidenbuiltje In Response To: Best anchors for strongest backgame? (sebalotek)
Date: Thursday, 12 January 2012, at 3:37 p.m.
Hi sebatolek,
your question is very good, so i won't flame you,
1-2 is not the best backgame, the reason for this is that it is hard to escape with checkers to recirculate when your opponent has a big prime in front of it.
You need at least a difference of 84 in pips to have enough timing.
Another reason why a 1-2 backgame is hard: the opponent can kill 5's and 6's (meaning he doesn't have to play this numbers when all his checkers are in front of you in a prime)
This is one of the reasons that you need so many pips in difference.
A 1-3 2-3 1-4 2-4 backgame need a timing of resp. 59, 48, 48, 43.
This is much easier to accomplish.
With all the mentioned backgames you have to wait with hitting until you have at least a 3-point board,
including the 5 and 6-point.
And you should wait with hitting until the opponent starts breaking his prime.
Other backgames like 3-4, 3-5, 2-5 have a holding game character.
This means that your timing is usually below 40 pips and any hit can make you go into a forward-mode or a normal-holding-game.
I don't know how nooby you are, but here are a few other tips:
1. When you are trying to get more timing by leaving blots, look out for being double-hitted, and/or leaving too many blots,
it might get you so long on the bar that you can't get time to build a good board.
2. When you can't manage to get enough timing, try to switch to a holding game.
3. Don't waste checkers on the 1 and 2-point of your front-board.
Good luck
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