Double Rolls in Backgammon Strategy

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Advice on backgammon strategy. Learn how to play the game of backgammon in this free online video clip, including strategy tips from a professional player.

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Posted by bigburlyal on Friday, 11 January, 2008 at 9:21 AM

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This is a great tutorial for people like me that are first playing. Malcolm's introduction at the start of each segment is too redundant though.

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Double Rolls in Backgammon Strategy
My name is Malcolm Davis, I’m a professional Backgammon player. I’m here for expertvillage.com to hopefully teach you basically how to play. Now let’s say he rolls double twos, okay that’s a great number for him, he says one, two and then he says excuse me what am I saying, he says one, two, a two, and then two-twos, three twos and four twos. It’s now meaningless for me to roll, I mean it’s just an exercise in futility. There’s no number that will allow me to move at all. So my opponent rolls and he rolls a double one, and that’s not, that’s really not so good for him. The best play here is probably something like one-one and one-one, actually the best play put this back and put this one over here, so that if the next roll, my opponent rolls six-six, he can play it without leading a blot. If he had played it this way and play rolled six-six, he would have to leave a blot, the number is forced. Whenever all your checkers are inside, you now start taking them off and you take them off in accordance with the numbering. Since its two sixes, he has to take two sixes off. So that would be very bad because now if I roll a six or maybe six-six, now I might win the game. He’s in jeopardy.

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Expert: Malcolm Davis has been a professional backgammon player for more than 30 years. Read More