The Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part One

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The objective of a Backgammon match is to shift your pieces around the game board and get them from the board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a game in Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. How far you can shift your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you shift your chips are determined by your overall gambling strategies. Players use a few plans in the differing stages of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game plan is to entice all your chips into your inner board and bear them off as quickly as you can. This strategy focuses on the pace of advancing your checkers with absolutely no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s pieces. The best time to use this plan is when you think you can shift your own chips faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main goal of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to block your opponent’s chips, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your pieces rapidly. After you have established the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other pieces quickly from the board. The player will need to also have a good plan when to withdraw and shift the pieces that you utilized for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when the competitor uses the same blocking strategy.