The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part 1
Posted in Backgammon on 09/29/2015 05:21 am by Lillie
The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your chips around the game board and pull them from the board quicker than your challenger who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a round of Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. Just how far you will be able to shift your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing tactics. Players use a number of strategies in the differing parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The aim of the Running Game plan is to lure all your chips into your inner board and get them off as quick as you can. This plan concentrates on the pace of shifting your chips with no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s chips. The ideal scenario to use this plan is when you think you might be able to move your own chips faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the game board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; or 3) your opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Strategy
The primary aim of the blocking plan, by the title, is to block your competitor’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your pieces quickly. As soon as you’ve created the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a few pieces, you can shift your other pieces rapidly from the board. You should also have a clear strategy when to withdraw and move the pieces that you used for blocking. The game gets intriguing when your opponent uses the same blocking technique.