The Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part One
Posted in Backgammon on 12/03/2016 09:25 am by Jillian
The aim of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces off the board faster than your competitor who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a round of Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. Just how far you will be able to move your checkers is up to the numbers from tossing the dice, and just how you shift your chips are decided on by your overall gambling strategies. Players use a few tactics in the different stages of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The goal of the Running Game technique is to bring all your pieces into your home board and pull them off as quick as you could. This technique focuses on the pace of advancing your chips with absolutely no time spent to hit or barricade your competitor’s pieces. The ideal time to use this technique is when you think you might be able to shift your own checkers a lot faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent’s chips; or 3) the opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking tactic.
The Blocking Game Plan
The primary goal of the blocking technique, by its title, is to block the opponent’s chips, temporarily, not fretting about shifting your checkers quickly. Once you’ve created the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can shift your other chips rapidly off the game board. The player really should also have a clear plan when to extract and move the pieces that you employed for the blockade. The game becomes intriguing when the opposition uses the same blocking tactic.