The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 1
Posted in Backgammon on 12/02/2018 12:25 pm by Lillie
The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your pieces around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces off the board faster than your opposing player who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match in Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. How far you will be able to shift your checkers is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and the way you move your pieces are determined by your overall gambling plans. Enthusiasts use a few strategies in the differing stages of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Strategy
The aim of the Running Game plan is to entice all your pieces into your inside board and get them off as quick as you could. This plan focuses on the speed of shifting your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s checkers. The ideal time to employ this plan is when you believe you might be able to shift your own chips faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have less chips on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor’s chips; or 3) the opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking plan.
The Blocking Game Strategy
The primary goal of the blocking plan, by its name, is to block your competitor’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your pieces quickly. After you’ve established the blockage for the competitor’s movement with a few pieces, you can shift your other pieces rapidly from the board. You really should also have a good plan when to back off and move the chips that you employed for the blockade. The game gets intriguing when your opposition uses the same blocking strategy.