The Essential Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 1

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The aim of a Backgammon match is to move your pieces around the game board and pull them off the game board faster than your opposing player who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round in Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. How far you can shift your checkers is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you shift your chips are determined by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use differing techniques in the differing parts of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your pieces into your home board and pull them off as quickly as you could. This technique focuses on the pace of advancing your checkers with little or no time spent to hit or stop your opponent’s pieces. The best scenario to employ this tactic is when you believe you can shift your own pieces a lot faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your competitor’s checkers; or 3) your opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main goal of the blocking strategy, by its name, is to stop your competitor’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your checkers rapidly. Once you have established the barrier for your opponent’s movement with a few pieces, you can shift your other chips rapidly from the board. You will need to also have a good plan when to back off and move the pieces that you used for the blockade. The game gets interesting when your opposition utilizes the same blocking tactic.