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Strategy Session: The End Game

I had an email the other day from a new player who said I have been concentrating too much on the starting moves but not enough on the end game.

For him…and thousands like him, here are some thoughts about the Grand Finale.

I hope those of you who read this for tournament news will forgive me this week, but there is a whole world of players out there who need to know more about the basics of the game.

You can start bearing off your checkers if all of them are in your home board area.

You take out your checkers by continuing rolling your dice.

You may take out the checker that is on the point corresponding to the numbers on the dice, also you can move them towards point 1 if the number rolled is not big enough. Also you must not necessarily bear off if you can make a legal move. You may do this if you want to avoid being hit while in your home board area.

If you roll a 3-2, you may either bear off one checker form point 3 and one from 2, or you can move two of your checkers from point 6 to point 4 respectively 3.

You may choose other moves depending on your strategy and game context. While bearing off it might happen that you get hit. In this case you may not bear off any of the remaining checkers before getting all the checkers again onto your home board. The winner is the one who succeeds first to bear off all his/her 15 checkers.