The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part One

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The goal of a Backgammon match is to shift your pieces around the game board and get them from the game board faster than your challenger who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round in Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and fortune. How far you can shift your chips is up to the numbers from tossing the dice, and how you move your pieces are decided on by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use different strategies in the different parts of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The aim of the Running Game tactic is to bring all your pieces into your inner board and pull them off as fast as you could. This plan focuses on the pace of moving your checkers with absolutely no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s chips. The best time to use this tactic is when you think you can move your own checkers faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the game board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) your opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary aim of the blocking tactic, by its title, is to stop your competitor’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your chips quickly. As soon as you’ve created the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other chips rapidly off the board. The player should also have an apparent strategy when to extract and move the chips that you used for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your competitor utilizes the same blocking strategy.