How to pronounce“backgame”in English
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Definitions of “backgame”
A game in which a player blocks the opponent's progress by forming two or more points in the opponent's home board.
“The strategy of the backgame is very similar to the defensive strategy discussed earlier; i.e., you begin to make your points inside your inner table and wait for him to leave a blot.”
An indirect strategy in which one attempts to achieve one's goals by maneuvering behind the scenes.
“This doctrine, once fully established, will add a great facility to business, and prevent unnecessary delays: for example —in former times a minister would have been exceedingly hampered with such a promise as we have here cited: he would have shifted, and delayed, and played the backgame to have got rid of it, or to reconcile the breach to his conscience and reputation: but here you see there was no unnecessary delay; the business went on; and he who acknowledged that he had given his word in a private capacity, brings the book to prove that as a first lord of the treasury "he was not bound to adhere to it," — and this is sound casuistry.”