The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 1

The goal of a Backgammon match is to move your checkers around the Backgammon board and pull those pieces off the board quicker than your opponent who works harder to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a match in Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and fortune. How far you can shift your checkers is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and just how you shift your checkers are decided on by your overall playing plans. Players use different techniques in the differing stages of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your checkers into your home board and pull them off as quickly as you could. This technique focuses on the speed of moving your pieces with no time spent to hit or block your opponent’s checkers. The ideal time to employ this technique is when you think you can move your own pieces quicker than the opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the game board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) your opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main goal of the blocking tactic, by the title, is to stop the competitor’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your pieces rapidly. Once you’ve created the blockage for the opponent’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other pieces quickly from the game board. You will need to also have a good plan when to extract and shift the checkers that you employed for blocking. The game gets intriguing when the competitor utilizes the same blocking tactic.

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