The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part One

The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the game board and bear those pieces off the game board quicker than your opponent who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a round in Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and good luck. Just how far you will be able to move your chips is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and just how you move your pieces are decided on by your overall playing techniques. Enthusiasts use a few strategies in the differing parts of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your checkers into your inside board and bear them off as fast as you can. This plan focuses on the speed of shifting your chips with absolutely no time spent to hit or block your opponent’s pieces. The best time to use this plan is when you believe you can shift your own pieces quicker than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s chips; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary aim of the blocking plan, by the title, is to stop the competitor’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your chips rapidly. As soon as you have created the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can shift your other pieces swiftly from the game board. The player should also have a clear plan when to withdraw and move the chips that you used for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when the opposition uses the same blocking tactic.

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