The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 1

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The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the Backgammon board and get those pieces off the board faster than your competitor who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a match in Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you can move your checkers is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your checkers are determined by your overall gambling tactics. Enthusiasts use different strategies in the differing parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your checkers into your home board and pull them off as quick as you can. This strategy concentrates on the pace of advancing your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or stop your competitor’s chips. The best scenario to employ this plan is when you believe you can move your own chips faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent’s chips; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Plan

The primary goal of the blocking plan, by its title, is to block your opponent’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your pieces rapidly. Once you’ve created the blockage for the opponent’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can shift your other chips rapidly from the board. The player should also have a good strategy when to back off and move the pieces that you employed for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when the opponent uses the same blocking technique.