The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part One

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The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your chips around the game board and bear them off the game board quicker than your competitor who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match in Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. Just how far you will be able to move your chips is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and just how you move your pieces are decided on by your overall playing techniques. Enthusiasts use a few tactics in the differing stages of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game tactic is to bring all your chips into your inside board and get them off as quick as you could. This strategy focuses on the speed of advancing your checkers with absolutely no time spent to hit or stop your opponent’s chips. The best scenario to use this strategy is when you think you might be able to shift your own pieces faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have less pieces on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; or 3) your opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main aim of the blocking technique, by the title, is to stop your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your checkers quickly. After you have established the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can shift your other chips swiftly from the game board. You should also have a clear strategy when to back off and shift the checkers that you used for blocking. The game gets intriguing when your competitor utilizes the same blocking technique.