Backgammon » Blog Archive » The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part One

 

The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part One

The objective of a Backgammon match is to move your pieces around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces from the game board faster than your challenger who works harder to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a round of Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. How far you will be able to move your chips is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and the way you move your chips are decided on by your overall gambling plans. Enthusiasts use different strategies in the different parts of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your checkers into your inside board and get them off as fast as you could. This technique focuses on the pace of shifting your pieces with absolutely no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s chips. The best time to use this tactic is when you believe you can move your own checkers faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your checkers have past your opponent’s chips; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main aim of the blocking technique, by the name, is to stop the competitor’s pieces, temporarily, not fretting about moving your chips quickly. As soon as you have created the blockage for the opponent’s movement with a few pieces, you can shift your other pieces rapidly off the game board. The player really should also have a good strategy when to withdraw and shift the checkers that you used for blocking. The game gets intriguing when the opponent utilizes the same blocking tactic.