The Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part One

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The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your pieces around the Backgammon board and get them from the game board faster than your opponent who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a game in Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and fortune. Just how far you can move your checkers is up to the numbers from tossing the dice, and just how you move your pieces are determined by your overall playing techniques. Enthusiasts use different techniques in the differing parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The goal of the Running Game tactic is to entice all your checkers into your inside board and pull them off as quick as you can. This tactic focuses on the pace of moving your pieces with no efforts to hit or barricade your opponent’s pieces. The best time to employ this tactic is when you believe you can move your own chips a lot faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s checkers; or 3) the opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The primary goal of the blocking plan, by the title, is to stop your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your pieces rapidly. As soon as you have established the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other chips quickly off the board. You should also have a clear strategy when to extract and move the chips that you employed for blocking. The game gets interesting when the competitor utilizes the same blocking tactic.