The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 1
Posted in Backgammon on 06/13/2018 02:25 pm by Jillian
The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the game board and bear those pieces off the game board faster than your opponent who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. How far you will be able to move your chips is left to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and the way you shift your chips are determined by your overall playing tactics. Players use a few techniques in the differing stages of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Strategy
The aim of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your chips into your home board and bear them off as fast as you could. This strategy focuses on the speed of advancing your checkers with no efforts to hit or stop your competitor’s pieces. The best time to employ this technique is when you believe you can shift your own checkers quicker than your opposition does: when 1) you have less pieces on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Plan
The main aim of the blocking strategy, by its name, is to stop your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about moving your chips rapidly. As soon as you’ve created the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a few pieces, you can move your other pieces rapidly from the game board. You really should also have a clear strategy when to extract and shift the pieces that you used for the blockade. The game gets intriguing when your opponent utilizes the same blocking strategy.