- November 4, 2020
This position is deceptive. Red seems to control the whole board and this looks to be a strong double that White might not be able to take.
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- October 30, 2020
Red needs to contain White’s rear checker. Clearly the three must be played 6/3*. The question is how to play the two?
- October 27, 2020
Red has a lot of work to do yet to win from this position so we can quickly ignore the safest play of 16/13, 2/1. The question is which White blot should Red hit and how?
- October 20, 2020
There is an old backgammon maxim, “A point cleared is a point not to be feared”.
- October 13, 2020
This is a very difficult back game problem and to solve it you need to work out the correct game plan for Red.
- September 29, 2020
Backgammon is difficult for many reasons but one of them is that every play matters, and to play well you have to concentrate throughout the game.
- September 28, 2020
Whenever you roll a small number like 21 you know you are going to have a lot of choices.