The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part 1
by Karla on Thursday, November 12th, 2009
The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your chips around the Backgammon board and pull them from the game board faster than your opposing player who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a game of Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. How far you will be able to shift your checkers is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you shift your chips are decided on by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use a few tactics in the differing stages of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Plan
The goal of the Running Game technique is to lure all your checkers into your inside board and get them off as fast as you can. This technique focuses on the speed of moving your pieces with no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s pieces. The ideal scenario to use this plan is when you believe you can shift your own chips quicker than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; or 3) your opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking tactic.
The Blocking Game Plan
The main aim of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to stop the opponent’s checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your pieces rapidly. As soon as you’ve created the blockade for your competitor’s movement with a few pieces, you can move your other chips quickly from the game board. The player should also have a clear plan when to extract and move the checkers that you employed for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when your opposition uses the same blocking tactic.
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