The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part One

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The objective of a Backgammon match is to move your checkers around the game board and get those pieces off the board quicker than your challenger who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a game in Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. How far you will be able to shift your pieces is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and how you move your checkers are determined by your overall playing techniques. Enthusiasts use differing techniques in the different parts of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The aim of the Running Game plan is to lure all your checkers into your inside board and bear them off as fast as you can. This strategy concentrates on the pace of moving your pieces with absolutely no time spent to hit or stop your opponent’s chips. The ideal time to use this strategy is when you think you can move your own pieces quicker than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your checkers have past your opponent’s chips; or 3) your opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary goal of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to stop your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about moving your chips rapidly. As soon as you’ve established the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other chips rapidly from the board. You really should also have a clear plan when to extract and shift the checkers that you utilized for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your competitor uses the same blocking strategy.