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Backgammon Strategies
Backgammon players rely on several established strategies, switching from one to the other depending on the position and the player. The following is a list of the alternatives available:
The Running Game Strategy
Keep your game open, avoid getting hit or blocked, and move as quickly as possible around the board. A simple strategy and a good one to follow when you are ahead.
The Holding Game Strategy
Retain a point in your opponent's board or bar point generating a continuous threat of hitting her blots as her checkers approach or enter her home board. When you throw large doubles, break this point and run, changing your strategy to a running game.
The Priming Game Strategy
Build a prime, or wall of checkers, ideally covering six consecutive points, so that your opponent cannot pass.Build at points 11 and less, and gradually ease the entire mass into your home board.
The Blitz Strategy
A variation of the prime strategy, but with a more aggressive objective: to keep your opponent's checker on the bar by closing your home board as quickly as possible so that she cannot re-enter.
The Backgame Strategy
Build two or more anchors in your opponent's home board while forming a prime in your own. This is obviously possible when you are already significantly behind, and serves to disrupt your opponent's plans, while awaiting favorable throws of the dice.
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