The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 1
Posted in Backgammon on 12/25/2016 11:25 pm by Jillian
The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the game board and pull them from the board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a match in Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and good luck. How far you will be able to shift your checkers is left to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and how you move your chips are decided on by your overall playing techniques. Players use different strategies in the different stages of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The goal of the Running Game technique is to entice all your checkers into your inner board and get them off as fast as you could. This technique concentrates on the pace of advancing your pieces with little or no time spent to hit or stop your opponent’s pieces. The ideal scenario to employ this tactic is when you think you can move your own checkers quicker than the opponent does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Plan
The primary goal of the blocking strategy, by its title, is to stop the competitor’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your checkers quickly. As soon as you’ve established the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a few pieces, you can move your other pieces swiftly from the game board. You will need to also have a good strategy when to extract and move the checkers that you used for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your opponent uses the same blocking tactic.