The Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part One
Posted in Backgammon on 02/27/2016 04:21 am by Jillian
The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your pieces around the game board and pull them from the game board faster than your opponent who works harder to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a round of Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and fortune. Just how far you will be able to shift your chips is left to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and just how you move your chips are decided on by your overall playing tactics. Players use a few strategies in the differing parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Technique
The aim of the Running Game tactic is to lure all your pieces into your home board and get them off as quick as you could. This plan focuses on the pace of shifting your chips with absolutely no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s chips. The best time to employ this plan is when you think you can shift your own checkers quicker than the opposition does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) the opponent does not use the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Strategy
The primary goal of the blocking technique, by the name, is to block the opponent’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about moving your pieces quickly. Once you have created the barrier for the opponent’s movement with a few pieces, you can move your other pieces rapidly off the board. The player really should also have a good strategy when to back off and move the checkers that you employed for the blockade. The game becomes intriguing when your opponent utilizes the same blocking strategy.