Stack

How it works in play

Piling many checkers on one point wastes them: they block nothing extra and leave you fewer good ways to play your rolls. Beginners often stack the 6- and 8-points ‘for safety’; spreading those spares out as builders is usually better.

Related terms

• Builder — A spare checker positioned to help make a new point next roll.
• Diversification — Spreading your good numbers so that many different rolls do useful work.
• Wastage — Pips lost to inefficiency in the bear-off — rolling a 6 when only a 1 was needed.
• Underbuilt — A position lacking the builders needed to make new points.

Go deeper

• Game plans: the tactics behind every plan
• Skill levels: the beginner’s leaks
• Backgammon strategy, from first roll to bear-off

In other languages

• العربيةالكومة (Stack)
• ΕλληνικάΣτοίβα (stack)
• فارسیپشته (Stack)
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• РусскийСтопка (stack)
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