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Best anchors for strongest backgame?

Posted By: leemo
Date: Saturday, 14 January 2012, at 6:19 a.m.

In Response To: Best anchors for strongest backgame? (sebalotek)

As others have said you don't always have the choice of which points to hold in a backgame, and there are other positional features to consider as well as how you assess your op's ability to bring it home.

But if you see yourself falling into a backgame or have a choice early on in a blot hitting contest with you at a disadvantage, try and grab the 3pt. This is the most versatile backgame point to hold as it gives you a playable game with all other points.

Something that tends to work for me, though it may be more by luck over judgement and comes with the usual caveat that backgammon is a game with more exceptions than rules: If you have the luxury of timing in your backgame, avoid making points in your home board deeper than the 4. Once this is made, extend your prime at the back not the front. This should give you greater flexibility for those awkward rolls that tend to come up, and it also helps by not cramping your op's play after you hit so that he can enter easily and crash or dislodge another checker. 456 also allows you to slot the outside points with impunity to force an escaping checker to hit.

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