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Nackgammon opening moves From:   Warwick Address:   dhawkmoon@xtra.co.nz Date:   16 February 2002 Subject:   Re: ideal opening moves Forum:   rec.games.backgammon Google:   dwgb8.666$B92.127391@news.xtra.co.nz I wouldn't mind knowing if anyone has compiled a list of opening moves for nackgammon. I find myself dithering at the start sometimes wheras in bg i know exactly what to do with the opening rolls. cheers Warwick Gregg Cattanach  writes: I did these Snowie rollouts way back when and came up with these results. (These are all assuming money game with Jacoby rule:) First the easy ones: 65: 24/18 23/18 61: 13/7 8/7 43: 24/20 23/20 42: 8/4 6/4 31: 8/5 6/5 Now the tricky ones: 64: 24/14 with 24/18 24/20 a close second. 63: 24/15 with 24/18 23/20 a close second. 62: 23/15 with 24/18 13/11 and 24/18 23/21 tied for second. 54: 24/20 13/8 53: 23/20 13/8 52: 23/21 13/8 and 24/22 13/8 and 24/22 23/18 all tied for first. 51: 24/18 and 23/22 13/8 tied for first. 41: 23/18 with 24/20 23/22 and 13/8 tied for second. 21: 23/20 and 24/22 23/22 tied for first, 23/21 23/22 a close second. As you can see, unless you can make a good home board point, (the 3 point doesn't count), all the action is concerned with making or setting up to make advanced anchor, and reinforcing the 8 point is also useful. The double-split plays (that leave 4 blots on his side of the board) are not as dangerous as they look, because with only 7 checkers in the attack zone, any immediate attempt to blitz is almost always doomed to failure. I like the double split plays against inexperienced players, because they almost always find some play that hits two checkers, and overextend themselves immediately in a fruitless attempt to conduct a blitz. Make that advanced anchor first, then worry about offense! Gregg   Did you find the information in this article useful?           Do you have any comments you'd like to add?

 

Variations

Acey-deucy  (J. Nagel, Dec 2004) 

Acey-deucy  (Steve Ewert, June 1998) 

Acey-deucy  (Lee+, Jan 1997) 

Acey-deucy  (John David Galt+, Dec 1995) 

Acey-deucy  (James Eibisch, Apr 1995) 

Backwards play  (Colin Bell, Feb 1996) 

Bad advice  (Jason Lee+, Mar 2004) 

Best-of-n variant of match play  (Tim Chow+, Feb 2009) 

Cancelgammon  (Ilia Guzei+, Mar 2004) 

Domino backgammon  (Laury Chizlett, Sept 1999) 

Duodecagammon  (David Moeser, Dec 2000) 

Duplicate backgammon  (Dean Gay+, Jan 1997) 

Duplicate backgammon  (Albert Steg, Feb 1996) 

Exact bearoff  (Chris Moellering+, Dec 2002) 

Fevga  (George, Sept 2004) 

Fevga (or Moultezim)  (Igor Sheyn+, May 1995) 

Freeze-out match  (Dave Brotherton, July 1998) 

Gabgammon  (jckz, Oct 2005) 

Greek backgammon  (Alexandre Charitopoulos, Aug 2003) 

Greek backgammon  (Alexandros Chatzipetros, June 1997) 

Greek backgammon  (Marc Jacobs+, Feb 1994) 

Hit man  (Matt Reklaitis, Jan 2004) 

Hyper backgammon  (Gregg Cattanach+, Dec 2000) 

Hyper backgammon  (Michael A Urban, Oct 1993) 

International backgammon  (Bob Lancaster+, Oct 2002) 

Jacquet  (Mark Driver, June 2001) 

Longgammon  (Michael Strato, Dec 2000) 

Low number first, fixed dice, others.  (Walter Trice, Jan 1997) 

Mexican  (Tom Henry, Apr 1997) 

Middle Eastern backgammon  (Alan Cairns, Mar 2002) 

Misere (backgammon to lose)  (Jason Lee+, July 2004) 

Misere (backgammon to lose)  (Jason Lee+, Apr 1995) 

Misere, Chase, Skewed dice  (Stein Kulseth, Jan 1997) 

Nackgammon  (Ken Arnold, July 1996) 

Nackgammon opening moves  (Warwick+, Feb 2002) 

Narde  (narde, Nov 2006) 

Nardi  (KL Gerber+, Nov 2002) 

No hit  (RedTop+, May 2004) 

Nuclear backgammon  (Walt Swan, Apr 1997) 

Old English  (Nick Wedd+, Feb 1996) 

One roll lookahead  (Stephen Turner, Mar 1997) 

Opening slot rule  (Gregg Cattanach, June 2006) 

Other variations  (Douglas Zare, Feb 2000) 

Plakoto  (Ed Dengler+, May 1995) 

Plakoto  (Pasteel M., Feb 1994) 

Plakoto express  (Athansios Vagias, Feb 2005) 

Portes  (George, Sept 2004) 

Roll-over  (Edward D. Collins, Oct 1997) 

Russian backgammon  (Daavid Turnbull, Aug 1991) 

Shesh Besh  (G.S., May 2003) 

Simborg Rule  (Scott+, Feb 2005) 

Slot backgammon  (Fabrice Liardet+, Aug 2008) 

Sudden death, Woodpecker, Gerhardsen  (Fredrik Dahl, Jan 1997) 

Tablestakes betting  (TrueMoneygames, June 2002) 

Takhteh  (Bruce Scott+, Mar 2003) 

Tavla  (Arda Findikoglu, Nov 2004) 

Tavla  (ucc02cx+, Feb 1997) 

Tavli (Portes, Plakoto, and Fevga)  (Jens Larsen, July 1997) 

Tracy turn around  (Michael J. Zehr, Feb 1996) 

Tri-gammon  (Gregg Cattanach, Sept 2000) 

Trictrac  (David Levy+, May 1998) 

Trigammon  (James Eibisch, Jan 1997) 

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