The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 1


The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the game board and bear them off the board faster than your opposing player who works harder to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a match of Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you will be able to move your pieces is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and how you move your chips are decided on by your overall playing plans. Players use a number of techniques in the different parts of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The aim of the Running Game technique is to lure all your checkers into your home board and get them off as quickly as you could. This plan concentrates on the speed of advancing your chips with no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s checkers. The ideal time to use this strategy is when you think you can move your own pieces a lot faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your opponent’s checkers; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Technique

The main aim of the blocking plan, by the name, is to stop your competitor’s checkers, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your chips quickly. Once you have established the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a couple of chips, you can shift your other pieces swiftly off the board. You should also have a good strategy when to withdraw and shift the chips that you employed for blocking. The game becomes interesting when the opposition uses the same blocking technique.

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