Blitz
The Backgammon Blitz is quite a risky plan of hitting your opponent’s blots, with the aim of keeping your opponent on the bar while moving your checkers into your home base as quickly as possible. The ultimate goal of the blitz is to close out one or more of your opponent’s pieces by occupying all 6 of the points in your home base, making it impossible for these pieces to return to the game until a point becomes available when you are bearing off.
Try going on the blitz plan when you hit an opponent’s checker and he stays on the bar a bit, or perhaps you hit two and he doesn’t enter both. A blitz is a much weaker plan when your opponent has as many points made in his board as you do in yours.
It is also crucial to double at the right time. Blitzes, when they succeed, often result in gammons, and by doubling after the blitz has been built, you'll make your opponent to quit and thus, losing only one point instead of four points.
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