In "anstellen" you play your stock close to one in the target area and secure the best position. When it pays off, how it is scored and which rules apply.
"Anstellen" means: you play your stock very close behind a stock in the target area, usually behind the one nearest the Daube, and so secure it. The honest answer to "Why bother when I can play close to the Daube?": because then the opponent can no longer simply shoot a stock out of the target area. The backing-up stock stands behind and protects the stock in front of it.
The textbook of the Austrian Stock Sport Federation (BÖE) describes it as a special variant of the measure attempt: at least one stock lies somewhat behind the Daube, and you play your own stock as close as possible to the target stock. The point: to secure your own stock from behind and reach best position at the same time. This makes it harder for the opponent to remove the stock from the playing field [1].
The German Ice Stock Association lists the possible tasks in team play: setting, anstellen, bringing and shooting [3]. So anstellen is a basic task, not a special trick.
Important on scoring: in older texts you often read "3 points for the best position, 2 for each further one". That is wrong. Under the International Ice Stock Rules every stock lying nearer the Daube after the end than the best opposing stock counts exactly 1 point, at most 4 points per end [2].
Anstellen is insurance. It pays out when the opponent shoots.
Entry criteria (practice standard):
Anstellen pays off when one of your stocks lies close to the Daube and the opponent could shoot it away with a stock attempt. The textbook describes for youth classes: if you have the first attempt, cover the Daube with the stock to force the opponent into a stock attempt, which is generally the harder attempt [1].
Milestone: From the photo of the end you see where a backing-up stock would make sense.
Every attempt is clarified beforehand. When the players step onto the delivery spot it must already be settled what is planned. Tactics are never discussed during the swing phase. If you change your mind after the preparation has begun, you must abort the attempt and start completely from the beginning: stance, grip and so on [1].
Milestone: Before every attempt you agree by gesture and stick to it.
Anstellen is a measure attempt with a small target area. The textbook advises choosing the running sole so that the force stays low, and stresses that it is harder to reduce force than to increase it [1]. Choose the sole with which you safely hit the zone near the Daube.
Milestone: With the sole you hit the zone behind the target stock five times in a row.
You see the stock in the target area as your target and play your stock close behind it. Important: you may touch stocks and the Daube but do not have the aim of removing them from the target area [1]. If your stock stays in the target area it counts if its resting end position touches or lies in the target area [2].
Milestone: You hit a marked zone behind a target stock in 3 of 5 attempts.
After the end every one of your stocks that lies nearer the Daube than the nearest opposing stock counts exactly 1 point, at most 1+1+1+1 = 4 per end [2]. Equal distance of opposing and own stocks from the Daube gives no points for those stocks [2].
Milestone: After an end you count the stock points correctly.
Anstellen is a calm attempt, but in team play rules apply so that everyone plays safely: during an end only one player per team may be at the target area as team leader, who must already have made his attempt. When an attempt is made nobody may be in or in front of the target area [2].
Plan the backing-up stock as the answer to the opponent's question: if his best stock lies close and you do not want to shoot it away, the backing-up stock is your standard. Train it in series of 10 attempts, always with the same stock positions, so you see whether you really improve. The series idea is practice, not a study finding.
You play your stock very close to a stock in the target area, usually behind the Daube, to secure it from behind and reach best position at the same time [1].
Every stock of a team lying nearer the Daube after the end than the nearest stock of the opponent counts one point. At most four points per end [2].
No. Under the IFI rules every better stock counts one point, at most 1+1+1+1 = 4 per end [2]. Older texts sometimes name other figures.
When your stock lies close to the Daube and you want to secure the position. The textbook names the measure attempt as the standard for youth classes because the target is larger than for a stock attempt [1].
You clarify that before the attempt. Positions, gestures and responsibilities should be discussed beforehand [1].
Pushing Up ("Aufgeben"/Bringing): Moving Your Own Stock Closer to the Daube