The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part One

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The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your checkers around the game board and bear those pieces off the game board faster than your competitor who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a match in Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and luck. How far you can move your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you move your chips are decided on by your overall playing techniques. Enthusiasts use different strategies in the different stages of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your chips into your inner board and get them off as quickly as you can. This tactic focuses on the speed of shifting your checkers with absolutely no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s checkers. The ideal scenario to employ this technique is when you think you might be able to shift your own chips quicker than your opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the game board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Technique

The primary goal of the blocking technique, by its title, is to stop your competitor’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your checkers rapidly. After you have established the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other checkers rapidly from the game board. The player really should also have an apparent plan when to withdraw and move the pieces that you used for blocking. The game becomes interesting when the competitor uses the same blocking technique.