Backgammon Blitz Strategy
Backgammon holding game strategy summary points:
- The aim of the Backgammon blitz strategy is to hold your opponent at the bar as you move your pieces into your home board as fast as you can.
- Keep one or more of your opponent's checkers by filling all six of the points in your home board, causing it to be impossible for these checkers to re-enter the game until you bear off and points become available.
- Once you begin using the Backgammon blitz strategy, you must keep hitting and taking risks in order to score more points.
- The key to utilizing the Backgammon blitz strategy is often an early roll where you hit your opponent's checker and he remains on the bar.
- The blitz strategy is NOT a good plan when your opponent has almost as many points in his home board as you have in yours.
- It is important to double at the appropriate time. When blitzes are successful, they often develop into gammons (wins of twice the value of a cube).
The Backgammon blitz strategy involves attacking your opponent's checkers, with the goal of holding your opponent at the bar as you move your pieces into your home board as soon as possible.
The main objective of the Backgammon blitz strategy is to keep at least one of your opponent's checkers by filling all six of the points in your home board, causing it to be impossible for these checkers to re-enter the game until you bear off and points become available.
Once you begin attacking using the Backgammon blitz strategy, you must keep hitting and taking risks in order to score more points. If the attack is not successful, because the opponent established an anchor or since you have been hit too many times, you may lose the game.
The key to utilizing the Backgammon blitz strategy is often an early roll where you hit your opponent's checker and he remains on the bar, or maybe you hit two of his checkers and he doesn't re-enter either of them.
The blitz strategy is NOT a good plan when your opponent has almost as many points in his home board as you have in yours. As you take risks to gain points, you cannot allow yourself to get hit and fail to re-enter from the bar.
Doubling at the appropriate time is also important. When blitzes are successful, they often develop into gammons (wins of twice the value of a cube).
Written by: Gary Tenaglia.
