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Firstly, i'd like to say hello to all.

I'm quite new to the game, so I'm still prone to the odd glaring error or five in a game.

Last night, my position was basically this:-

I had my home board covered with at least two checkers and one checker was still in his half of the table, I managed to hit one of his checkers, so had a free table to get my only checker onto the home board.  I had already doubled which he accepted and I threw the dice which basically left my last checker on the 7 spike.  I then threw a 5&6, thereby having to leave the 6 spike with only 1 checker on it.  My opponent then preceded to throw 66, putting me on the bar with only a 2 or 4 open to me, which i missed 3 throws in a row, he hit 66 twice more in a row and went to win the game.

After I threw the 56, somebody watching said that it was my mistake which cost me the game.

As i saw it I had no option left open to me and the fact he got a bit lucky to hit my 6 was the reason he won not the fact I had made a mistake.

Thoughts?

Apologies for no pics but I don't know how to do that yet.

Hard to say without having seeing it but certainly you must have played differently to avoid to play that bad 6-5

Depending on what your previous roll was, this may have been the right occasion to clear down your 6 point rather than leave the spare piece on the 7, which is effectively having 3 on your highest point. You were presumably ahead in the race, so your opponent getting back on early might not have been a problem.