The Essential Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part One

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The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your checkers around the game board and bear them off the board quicker than your competitor who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a game in Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and fortune. Just how far you will be able to move your chips is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing strategies. Enthusiasts use differing plans in the differing parts of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

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

The Blocking Game Technique

The main goal of the blocking technique, by the title, is to block your competitor’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your checkers quickly. After you’ve established the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other pieces swiftly off the game board. The player should also have an apparent plan when to withdraw and shift the chips that you used for blocking. The game gets interesting when your opponent uses the same blocking technique.