Having completed the module on safe play, we almost have a complete foundation upon which we can start building some more advanced intuition. First, we need to learn to recognize the larger patterns that typically appear in a game of backgammon.
Backgammon checker play can be categorized into 5 main game plans:
Being able to identify which game plan we and our opponent are each trying to play will do a ton towards guiding our play and avoiding the largest mistakes in our checker play.
Further reading:
- For my money, Backgammon by Paul Magriel (also known as “the bible” of backgammon) has the best explanation of the different game plans by far.
- Five Game Plans video on the Backgammon is Beautiful youtube channel
- A series of articles by Mary Hickey on game plan selection. She has also published a book called What’s your game plan that I highly recommend.
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