TurtleDog's Blog: How to Make the Best Backgammon Opening.
Hi! This is great for a beginner. I used to think backgammon was all luck and got beat all the time. Realizing it is a game of skill, I learned some basic opening moves and really improved my game. This article focuses on making the best backgammon opening moves after you throw doubles. Have fun!As far as rules go, backgammon is a simple game. There’s about ten rules, but the strategy of the game is amazingly complicated. Really, it’s all math. The beginning is the most straightforward part of the game and everyone starts with the same strategy: trap the two pieces in your home.It’s a key part of backgammon strategies and an important element of tactical play. If you rush ahead, leaving your backmarkers behind, you will have a devil of a job getting them out. Temper your aggression with common sense, keep your board evenly spread, and balance your offence and defence, so if you do attack you have some defences against a counter-attack.
Backgammon is a race game. You have two options: try to win the race by advancing forward; or, give up on the race, make a prime, wait for a shot and hit it. If you choose (or are forced to choose) to hang back and wait - you're playing a backgame, according to some earlier backgammon strategies.But since I cannot possibly explain the entire great backgammon moves and backgammon strategy with a single article, let me offer some tips for the your backgammon opening moves. Everybody knows, that there is no question what to do with 3-1, 6-1, 4-2 and 6-5 Dices outcomes.
End Game Strategies for Backgammon. The end-game phase of backgammon is crunch time when all of the hard work pays off and players stop being bogged off and begin to bear checkers off. This is the phase where the game turns into a race, but there is still a good chance that checkers will be hit.
