The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part One
Posted in Backgammon on 06/17/2007 07:09 am by Lillie
The objective of a Backgammon game is to shift your chips around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces from the board faster than your opponent who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a game in Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. How far you will be able to shift your chips is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you shift your checkers are decided on by your overall playing techniques. Enthusiasts use a few techniques in the differing parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Plan
The aim of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your pieces into your inner board and pull them off as quick as you could. This strategy focuses on the speed of shifting your chips with absolutely no time spent to hit or stop your competitor’s pieces. The ideal scenario to use this strategy is when you think you might be able to shift your own pieces faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less pieces on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s chips; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking plan.
The Blocking Game Strategy
The main aim of the blocking strategy, by its name, is to block the opponent’s checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. As soon as you have created the blockage for the opponent’s movement with a few pieces, you can shift your other checkers quickly from the game board. You really should also have a good plan when to extract and move the checkers that you used for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your opponent uses the same blocking tactic.