The Essential Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part One


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The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your pieces around the Backgammon board and get those pieces off the game board faster than your opponent who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a game in Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you will be able to move your checkers is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and just how you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing techniques. Players use a few tactics in the different parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your pieces into your inside board and get them off as fast as you could. This tactic focuses on the speed of moving your chips with no time spent to hit or stop your opponent’s checkers. The ideal scenario to use this strategy is when you believe you might be able to shift your own chips quicker than the opponent does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The primary aim of the blocking technique, by the name, is to stop your competitor’s checkers, temporarily, not fretting about moving your checkers rapidly. Once you’ve created the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other pieces rapidly off the game board. You should also have a clear plan when to extract and shift the chips that you used for the blockade. The game becomes intriguing when your opposition uses the same blocking strategy.

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