The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 1

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The aim of a Backgammon match is to move your chips around the Backgammon board and pull them from the game board faster than your opposing player who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round in Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you will be able to move your pieces is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and the way you move your checkers are decided on by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use different plans in the differing stages of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game tactic is to entice all your checkers into your home board and bear them off as fast as you can. This strategy focuses on the speed of shifting your pieces with absolutely no efforts to hit or stop your competitor’s pieces. The best time to employ this technique is when you believe you can 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 checkers; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The primary aim of the blocking strategy, by the name, is to block the competitor’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your pieces quickly. As soon as you’ve established the blockade for your competitor’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can shift your other pieces quickly from the board. The player really should also have an apparent plan when to extract and shift the checkers that you used for the blockade. The game gets interesting when your opponent uses the same blocking technique.