6. If you are to leave a blot upon entering a man on your adversary's tables, and have your choice where, always chase that point which is the most dis advantageous to him. To illustrate this, suppose it is his interest to hit or take you up so soon as you enter : in that case leave the blot upon his lowest point ; that is to say, upon his deuce, rather than upon his trois, and so on, because all the men your adversary plays upon his trois or his deuce-points are in a great measure out of play, those men not having it in their power to make his einquc.point, and consequently his game will be crowded there and open elsewhere, whereby you will be able also much to annoy him 7. Prevent your adversary from bearing his men to the greatest advantage, when you are running to save a gammon : suppose you should have two men.npon his ace-point, and several others abroad ; though you should lose one point or two in putting the men into your tables, yet it is your interest to leave a man upon the adversary's ace-point ; which will prevent him bearing his men to his greatest advantage, and will alagive you the chance of his making a blot, that you may hit. But if, upon a calculation, you
find you have a throw, or a probability- of saving your gammon, never wait for a blot, because the odds are greatly against hitting it.
Laws of Backgammon.
I. If you take a man or men from any point, that man or men must be played.
2. You are not understood to have played any man till placed upon a point, and quitted.
3. If you play with 11 men only, there is no pe .nalty attending it, because with a lesser number you play to a disadvantage, by not having the additional man to make up your tables.
4. If you bear any number of men before you have entered a man taken up, and which consequently you was obliged to enter, such men, so borne, must be entered again in your adversary's tables, as well as the man taken up.
5.- If you have mistaken your throw, and played it, and if your adversary has thrown, it is not in your or his choice to alter it, unless both parties agree.