The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part One
Posted in Backgammon on 02/15/2016 01:21 pm by Jillian
The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your pieces around the game board and pull those pieces from the board quicker than your opposing player who works harder to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a match in Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and good luck. How far you can move your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you move your pieces are determined by your overall playing tactics. Players use differing techniques in the differing parts of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Strategy
The aim of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your pieces into your home board and pull them off as fast as you could. This plan focuses on the pace of advancing your chips with little or no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s pieces. The ideal time to employ this strategy is when you believe you might be able to move your own checkers faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; or 3) the opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking tactic.
The Blocking Game Strategy
The main goal of the blocking strategy, by the title, is to block the competitor’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. After you’ve established the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other pieces quickly from the board. The player will need to also have a clear strategy when to withdraw and shift the pieces that you employed for blocking. The game gets intriguing when the competitor uses the same blocking strategy.