The aim of a Backgammon match is to move your pieces around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces off the board faster than your challenger who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a game of Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. How far you can shift your pieces is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and the way you shift your chips are determined by your overall playing strategies. Enthusiasts use a few tactics in the differing stages of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The goal of the Running Game plan is to bring all your checkers into your home board and bear them off as quickly as you can. This plan focuses on the pace of moving your chips with little or no efforts to hit or stop your competitor’s pieces. The best scenario to employ this strategy is when you believe you might be able to shift your own checkers quicker than your opposing player does: when 1) you have less chips on the game board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Plan
The main goal of the blocking strategy, by the title, is to stop your competitor’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your pieces quickly. As soon as you’ve created the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can shift your other checkers quickly off the board. You should also have a clear plan when to extract and move the checkers that you used for blocking. The game gets intriguing when your opponent utilizes the same blocking technique.
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