The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part One
Posted in Backgammon on 12/28/2018 02:25 am by Lillie
The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the game board and bear those pieces from the game board quicker than your competitor who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a game of Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. Just how far you can shift your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and just how you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use differing plans in the differing stages of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Plan
The aim of the Running Game technique is to entice all your pieces into your inside board and bear them off as quickly as you could. This strategy focuses on the pace of shifting your pieces with little or no time spent to hit or barricade your opponent’s checkers. The ideal scenario to use this technique is when you think you can shift your own checkers a lot faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your opponent’s chips; or 3) your opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Plan
The main goal of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to stop your opponent’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. Once you’ve created the blockade for your competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can shift your other chips rapidly from the board. You will need to also have an apparent strategy when to withdraw and move the pieces that you utilized for blocking. The game gets intriguing when the opposition utilizes the same blocking strategy.