As beginners, one of the mantras we always say when playing backgammon is "When in doubt, hit!" For the most part, this can be very solid advice, but there are circumstances in which hitting can be very dangerous. One of the reoccurring situations happens to be with the ace point. Very often, it may seem that a split backgame with a lone checker on the ace point looks like an easy hit, but looks can be deceiving.