The Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 1
The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your chips around the game board and get those pieces off the board faster than your challenger who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a match of Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. Just how far you can move your pieces is up to the numbers from tossing the dice, and how you move your pieces are determined by your overall playing strategies. Players use different tactics in the differing stages of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Strategy
The aim of the Running Game tactic is to entice all your chips into your home board and pull them off as fast as you can. This plan concentrates on the pace of shifting your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s chips. The ideal time to employ this strategy is when you believe you can move your own pieces quicker than your opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The main goal of the blocking strategy, by its name, is to stop your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your checkers quickly. Once you’ve created the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can move your other pieces rapidly off the game board. You will need to also have a good plan when to extract and move the pieces that you utilized for blocking. The game gets interesting when your opposition uses the same blocking strategy.
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