The Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 1


The objective of a Backgammon game is to shift your pieces around the Backgammon board and get them off the board faster than your opposing player who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round of Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and good luck. How far you can move your checkers is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you move your checkers are determined by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use differing strategies in the differing stages of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game plan is to entice all your chips into your inner board and pull them off as quickly as you can. This strategy concentrates on the pace of moving your pieces with absolutely no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s pieces. The ideal scenario to employ this tactic is when you think you can shift your own chips a lot faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) the opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Technique

The main aim of the blocking technique, by its name, is to stop the competitor’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your pieces rapidly. Once you’ve created the blockade for your competitor’s movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other checkers rapidly off the board. The player should also have an apparent strategy when to extract and move the checkers that you used for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when the competitor utilizes the same blocking tactic.

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