The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 1
The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the Backgammon board and get them off the board quicker than your opposing player who works harder to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round in Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. How far you can shift your chips is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you shift your pieces are determined by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use a few plans in the differing stages of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Strategy
The aim of the Running Game plan is to bring all your chips into your inner board and pull them off as quick as you can. This tactic focuses on the speed of advancing your chips with no time spent to hit or barricade your opponent’s chips. The ideal scenario to employ this plan is when you think you can move your own checkers faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) your opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking tactic.
The Blocking Game Plan
The main goal of the blocking tactic, by its title, is to stop your competitor’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your chips rapidly. After you’ve created the blockage for your opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can shift your other pieces quickly off the board. The player will need to also have a good strategy when to back off and move the chips that you used for the blockade. The game gets intriguing when the opponent utilizes the same blocking technique.
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