The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 1
Posted in Backgammon on 03/31/2018 02:25 pm by Jillian
The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the Backgammon board and get those pieces from the board quicker than your opposing player who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a round in Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. How far you will be able to shift your pieces is up to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you move your pieces are determined by your overall gambling plans. Enthusiasts use different tactics in the differing parts of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Plan
The aim of the Running Game technique is to bring all your checkers into your inner board and get them off as quickly as you can. This strategy concentrates on the pace of moving your checkers with absolutely no time spent to hit or barricade your competitor’s checkers. The best time to employ this plan is when you think you can shift your own checkers faster than your opposing player does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent’s checkers; or 3) the opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking tactic.
The Blocking Game Plan
The primary aim of the blocking plan, by its title, is to block the competitor’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your chips quickly. As soon as you’ve created the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can shift your other checkers quickly from the board. You really should also have a clear plan when to back off and shift the checkers that you employed for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your opposition utilizes the same blocking technique.