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In exceptionally general terms, there are three chief strategies employed. You need to be agile enough to hop between game plans instantly as the course of the match unfolds.

The Blockade

This consists of building a 6-thick wall of pieces, or at least as deep as you can achieve, to lock in the opponent’s checkers that are located on your 1-point. This is deemed to be the most adequate course of action at the start of the match. You can assemble the wall anywhere within your 11-point and your two-point and then shift it into your home board as the match progresses.

The Blitz

This is composed of closing your home board as quickly as as you can while keeping your opponent on the bar. i.e., if your competitor rolls an early 2 and shifts one piece from your 1-point to your 3-point and you then toss a five-five, you can play 6/1 6/1 8/3 8/3. Your competitor is now in big-time dire straits considering that they have 2 checkers on the bar and you have locked half your inner board!

The Backgame

This course of action is where you have two or more pieces in your competitor’s inner board. (An anchor is a point consisting of at least two of your checkers.) It needs to be employed when you are extremely behind as it much improves your circumstances. The strongest places for anchors are close to your opponent’s smaller points and also on adjacent points or with a single point separating them. Timing is critical for a powerful backgame: at the end of the day, there’s no reason having two nice anchor spots and a solid wall in your own home board if you are then required to break apart this right away, while your challenger is shifting their pieces home, taking into account that you don’t have any other spare pieces to move! In this case, it is more favorable to have pieces on the bar so that you might maintain your position up until your opponent provides you a chance to hit, so it will be a good idea to try and get your opposer to get them in this case!

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