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The Essential Facts of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 1

The objective of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the Backgammon board and pull them from the game board faster than your challenger who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a game in Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. How far you will be able to move your chips is left to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and the way you shift your chips are determined by your overall playing plans. Players use a few plans in the differing parts of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your chips into your inside board and bear them off as quick as you could. This technique focuses on the speed of moving your chips with no time spent to hit or block your opponent’s checkers. The best time to employ this plan is when you believe you can move your own pieces quicker than your opponent does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your checkers have past your opponent’s checkers; or 3) your opponent does not use the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Technique

The primary aim of the blocking plan, by its name, is to stop your competitor’s chips, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your pieces quickly. After you’ve created the barrier for the competitor’s movement with a few pieces, you can move your other checkers quickly from the game board. The player should also have a good plan when to extract and shift the pieces that you utilized for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when your opposition utilizes the same blocking strategy.