In astonishingly general terms, there are three main strategies employed. You must be agile enough to hop between tactics quickly as the course of the game unfolds.
The Blockade
This is comprised of assembling a 6-deep wall of checkers, or at least as deep as you are able to achieve, to barricade in your opponent’s pieces that are located on your 1-point. This is judged to be the most suitable strategy at the start of the match. You can assemble the wall anyplace within your eleven-point and your 2-point and then move it into your home board as the game advances.
The Blitz
This consists of locking your home board as fast as possible while keeping your challenger on the bar. i.e., if your opponent rolls an early two and shifts one piece from your one-point to your three-point and you then roll a five-five, you are able to play 6/1 six/one eight/three eight/three. Your challenger is then in serious calamity because they have two pieces on the bar and you have locked half your inner board!
The Backgame
This plan is where you have 2 or more anchors in your competitor’s home board. (An anchor spot is a position occupied by at least two of your pieces.) It must be used when you are extremely behind as it greatly improves your chances. The better locations for anchors are near your opponent’s smaller points and either on abutting points or with one point separating them. Timing is integral for a competent backgame: at the end of the day, there’s no reason having 2 nice anchors and a solid wall in your own home board if you are then required to break down this straight away, while your opposer is shifting their checkers home, seeing that you do not have any other additional checkers to shift! In this case, it’s more tolerable to have checkers on the bar so that you are able to preserve your position up till your opponent provides you a chance to hit, so it will be a great idea to attempt and get your competitor to get them in this case!
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