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Hi Vic! Excellent instructional videos. Do you have any for more advanced players? I have only recently been able to be on-line and if you could reccommend a site to play backgammon it would be much appreciated? Kindest regards, Peter

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Vic Morawski

Director, Baltimore Backgammon Club

baltimorebackgammonclub.com

Backgammon Bearing Off - No Opponent

A video introduction to Backgammon taught by former college educator and current Baltimore Backgammon Club Director, Vic Morawski. While aimed primarily at beginning and novice level players, the video series contains some tips and insights that should be of interest to intermediate players and to those wishing to make the transition from internet to live play. After familiarizing viewers with the basic parts of a Backgammon set and presenting an overview of the game's rules, this well-organized series shows how experienced players approach the game by introducing the types of game plans used by them to play winning Backgammon: The Running Game, the Blitz, Priming Game, Holding Game and Back Game.

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Gammon

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Bear off

Blitz

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Back game

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Vic Morawski: Hi, I am Vic and today we are introducing you to the game of Backgammon. We would like next to look at the situation where you are simply bearing your checkers off and you don't have an opponent to worry about. There are just a couple of things to remember as you are bearing checkers off. Note, in this situation blue has already a number of its checkers borne off. The first thing to remember is whenever possible, if you roll a number that allows you to do so, it is almost never wrong to take a checker off directly. So if you roll a three, take the checker of the three point, don't move one down from the six. Don't move something down from the five. It's usually better to take one directly off if you at all, can. Now you will notice, blue has some gaps here that blue would rather not have and there are priorities here.

Suppose in this situation, I have a two to play. Well, there are two productive ways that I could play a two. First of all, this would not be good, because it just stacks them up, but here I have got the option of filling in a point where there is no checker or of evening out the distribution on to a point where there is one, but there is only one and the priority here since you can miss entirely if you roll a four is if you are rolling a two in this situation and you cannot take a checker off because a two point is open here to fill in gaps during the bear off, if you can.

Now if, let's suppose there is no checker on the one point and blue has one to play. You can again fill in from there. There might be situations where the best thing you can do is to even out the distribution, that's a third order priorities. So it's better first to fill in gaps and then to even out the distribution if you need to and next we will talk about some aspects of bearing your checkers off when you have your opponent in your home board.

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