The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part One
Posted in Backgammon on 07/15/2009 12:34 am by Jillian
The aim of a Backgammon game is to move your chips around the game board and get them off the board faster than your opponent who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match in Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. How far you will be able to shift your pieces is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and the way you shift your checkers are decided on by your overall gambling plans. Players use a few plans in the different parts of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The goal of the Running Game plan is to lure all your checkers into your inner board and bear them off as fast as you could. This plan focuses on the speed of advancing your chips with absolutely no time spent to hit or barricade your opponent’s checkers. The best scenario to employ this tactic is when you believe you might be able to shift your own checkers quicker than the opponent does: when 1) you have less pieces on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Technique
The main goal of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to block the opponent’s checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your pieces quickly. After you’ve established the blockage for your opponent’s movement with a few chips, you can shift your other checkers swiftly off the game board. You should also have a clear strategy when to extract and shift the checkers that you employed for blocking. The game gets intriguing when your opponent uses the same blocking technique.