The Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part One
The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the Backgammon board and get them off the board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a game of Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. How far you will be able to shift your pieces is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and just how you move your checkers are decided on by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use a few strategies in the different stages of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Technique
The aim of the Running Game technique is to entice all your checkers into your home board and pull them off as fast as you could. This plan focuses on the speed of advancing your pieces with absolutely no time spent to hit or barricade your opponent’s pieces. The ideal scenario to employ this plan is when you believe you can shift your own checkers faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have less chips on the game board; 2) all your checkers have past your competitor’s chips; or 3) your opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking tactic.
The Blocking Game Plan
The primary goal of the blocking tactic, by the title, is to stop the competitor’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your chips quickly. Once you’ve established the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other pieces swiftly off the game board. The player should also have a good plan when to withdraw and move the chips that you utilized for the blockade. The game gets interesting when the opposition uses the same blocking tactic.
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