The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part One
by Karla on Wednesday, December 30th, 2020
The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the game board and pull them off the board faster than your opposing player who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a round of Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. How far you will be able to shift your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and the way you shift your pieces are determined by your overall gambling plans. Enthusiasts use a few strategies in the different stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Technique
The aim of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your chips into your home board and bear them off as fast as you can. This tactic concentrates on the speed of shifting your chips with absolutely no time spent to hit or block your opponent’s chips. The ideal time to use this plan is when you believe you can shift your own checkers faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less chips on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s chips; or 3) your opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking plan.
The Blocking Game Plan
The main aim of the blocking tactic, by its title, is to stop the competitor’s chips, temporarily, not fretting about moving your pieces rapidly. After you have created the barrier for your opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can shift your other pieces quickly from the game board. The player will need to also have a clear strategy when to extract and move the pieces that you utilized for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when your opposition uses the same blocking strategy.
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