The Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 1

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The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your checkers around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces from the board quicker than your competitor who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a round in Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and fortune. How far you can shift your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing techniques. Players use a few strategies in the different stages of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your chips into your inside board and get them off as quickly as you can. This strategy concentrates on the pace of moving your pieces with little or no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s chips. The best scenario to use this plan is when you think you can shift your own pieces faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your competitor’s chips; or 3) the opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main aim of the blocking tactic, by the title, is to stop the opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your chips rapidly. Once you have created the barrier for the competitor’s movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other chips swiftly off the game board. You should also have a clear strategy when to extract and shift the chips that you used for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when the opposition utilizes the same blocking tactic.