Backgammon: Containment Game Strategy (Lesson 15)

[@JakobGille2]

Just watched half of your videos and this is another super valuable one! Keep up the good work!

[@BackgammonisBeautiful]

Appreciate your support, many thanks

[@tudorpogacean]

I am really happy that I have subscribed to your channel, prior to kindly asking me to do so! I really enjoy all your videos from which I learn a lot! Thank you!

[@BackgammonisBeautiful]

Thank you, Pogacean. I'm glad you are enjoying the content :)

[@zoeyharries2062]

Fantastic lesson on a difficult topic regarding backgammon. Clearly presented. Keep up with the good work.

[@BackgammonisBeautiful]

Thanks for your comments. This one took a while to put together :)

[@onedev6594]

Great lesson again. Now i know how to play containment games correctly. I always made the fault of keeping just one checker trapped and tried to bear off fast with "picking and passing" hits during the bear off and lost a lot of times but now i know what i have to aim for to get the show to the end :) Thank you very much for this great explanation.

[@BackgammonisBeautiful]

Glad you found this useful. Thanks for your comments 🙂

[@filyboy7]

thanks for the great lesson dan. i recently played a game where i made four back-to-back blunders while trying to contain my opponent's checker. clearly i didn't understand the main principles governing those types of positions. this video really helped clear some of it up.

[@BackgammonisBeautiful]

Glad it helped :)

[@iangardner6064]

Hi Dan - great stuff, very well explained. You deserve a lot more likes. I'll be sharing your channel with my backgammon buddies to see if we can do something about that!

[@BackgammonisBeautiful]

Appreciate your support, Ian. Many thanks

[@neilwaldock6272]

Thanks for doing a video on my suggestion of containment games. Most bg educators say very little about them or avoid them altogether, so bravo for tackling it head on. I think containment games will always remain challenging for humans, but then if bg was easy, would any of us want to play? There's a small mistake (not important) at 8:25, where the checker on 14 suddenly moves to the 15. Also, at 13:17, another reason for not moving the checker on the 13 to the 10 with a three, is that the 13 can make the 8 point with 3 more rolls than a checker on the 10 can. Also, at 9:03, when deciding which 1 to play, I think you mean 9 or 10, not 9 or 12. I think a better way of explaining this play would be to hit with the 5, 15 to 10, then play the one either 10 to 9, 12 to 11, 16 to 15 or 17 to 16.

[@BackgammonisBeautiful]

There is a noticeable absence of videos or even books on containment games. Perhaps their complexity scares people off. I thought I would rise to the challenge as games such as these can be common. Some minor slips in video but when tackling something like this, it's expected. I hope Mochy or Michi will make a video on this soon.

[@davitjaparashvili106]

great video! thank you

[@BackgammonisBeautiful]

Thanks for watching :)

[@GumbyTheGreen1]

This play by play format is very helpful. Thank you! Small correction at 15:14: You don’t want him to roll double 1s, so it’s really only 10 in 36.

[@Alex-zz7yc]

At 22:02 didn't have green to double and white to pass at that point, before rolling the 4-1? Because of one white checkers already in the green home board in the 1 point, the second on the bar and the chance to fish the third white checker, green already had a greater than 80% chance of winning therefore it was a double/pass, right?

[@BackgammonisBeautiful]

It's a borderline take/pass decision. My oversight! Thanks for pointing out.

[@billm2412]

I hope to see more exciting videos like this one in the near future!!! If I was you I would employ P r o m o s m!

[@BackgammonisBeautiful]

Good idea, thanks Bill