The Essential Details of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 1
Posted in Backgammon on 11/03/2015 04:21 am by Lillie
The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your chips around the game board and pull them off the game board quicker than your challenger who works harder to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a game in Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you can shift your pieces is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and the way you move your chips are determined by your overall gambling strategies. Enthusiasts use differing tactics in the different stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Strategy
The aim of the Running Game tactic is to lure all your chips into your inner board and get them off as quick as you can. This plan focuses on the speed of moving your checkers with little or no time spent to hit or stop your competitor’s checkers. The ideal time to employ this strategy is when you believe you might be able to shift your own checkers faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent’s chips; or 3) the opponent does not use the hitting or blocking tactic.
The Blocking Game Technique
The primary goal of the blocking plan, by its name, is to block the opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your chips quickly. As soon as you’ve established the blockage for the opponent’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can shift your other checkers swiftly off the game board. You will need to also have an apparent strategy when to back off and shift the checkers that you employed for the blockade. The game gets interesting when your competitor uses the same blocking strategy.