The Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 1

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The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the Backgammon board and pull those pieces from the game board faster than your competitor who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round in Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you can shift your chips is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and the way you shift your pieces are decided on by your overall playing plans. Players use different techniques in the different parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your chips into your inner board and get them off as quick as you can. This strategy concentrates on the speed of shifting your pieces with little or no time spent to hit or barricade your opponent’s checkers. The best scenario to employ this plan is when you think you might be able to shift your own chips faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your opponent’s chips; or 3) the opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary goal of the blocking plan, by its title, is to block the opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your chips quickly. As soon as you’ve created the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can shift your other chips swiftly off the game board. The player will need to also have an apparent plan when to back off and shift the checkers that you employed for blocking. The game gets intriguing when the opposition uses the same blocking strategy.