The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part One
Posted in Backgammon on 10/13/2019 11:25 am by Lillie
The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your chips around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces from the board faster than your opposing player who works harder to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a game in Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and good luck. How far you can move your checkers is up to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you shift your chips are decided on by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use a few techniques in the different stages of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Plan
The goal of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your chips into your home board and pull them off as fast as you could. This plan concentrates on the speed of shifting your pieces with little or no efforts to hit or barricade your opponent’s chips. The ideal time to employ this strategy is when you think you might be able to move your own checkers faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) the opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Strategy
The main aim of the blocking tactic, by its title, is to block your competitor’s pieces, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your chips quickly. As soon as you have established the blockage for the opponent’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other pieces rapidly from the board. The player will need to also have a clear strategy when to withdraw and move the checkers that you employed for the blockade. The game gets interesting when your opposition utilizes the same blocking strategy.