The Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 1

The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your pieces around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces off the board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a round of Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and good luck. How far you can shift your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and just how you shift your checkers are decided on by your overall playing strategies. Enthusiasts use a few strategies in the differing parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game technique is to entice all your checkers into your inner board and pull them off as fast as you could. This technique concentrates on the speed of shifting your chips with absolutely no efforts to hit or barricade your opponent’s checkers. The best scenario to use this strategy is when you think you can shift your own checkers faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; or 3) your opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Technique

The primary goal of the blocking tactic, by its title, is to block your competitor’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about moving your checkers rapidly. As soon as you have established the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other checkers quickly off the board. You should also have a clear plan when to back off and move the pieces that you utilized for blocking. The game gets intriguing when the opposition utilizes the same blocking strategy.

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