The Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 1
Posted in Backgammon on 03/10/2025 11:25 pm by Lillie
The goal of a Backgammon match is to shift your checkers around the game board and pull those pieces from the board faster than your opposing player who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a game in Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and luck. How far you can shift your chips is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you move your chips are determined by your overall gambling techniques. Enthusiasts use a few techniques in the differing parts of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Plan
The aim of the Running Game plan is to bring all your chips into your inner board and get them off as quickly as you could. This tactic focuses on the pace of shifting your pieces with no efforts to hit or barricade your opponent’s pieces. The ideal scenario to use this plan is when you believe you can move your own chips a lot faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; or 3) your opponent does not use the hitting or blocking tactic.
The Blocking Game Technique
The main aim of the blocking technique, by its title, is to stop the competitor’s checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your chips rapidly. As soon as you have established the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can shift your other chips swiftly off the board. The player will need to also have a good plan when to extract and shift the pieces that you used for the blockade. The game gets interesting when the competitor utilizes the same blocking strategy.