The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part One
Posted in Backgammon on 05/08/2019 05:25 am by Jillian
The aim of a Backgammon game is to move your chips around the game board and get them from the game board quicker than your opposing player who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a match in Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. 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 shift your chips are determined by your overall playing tactics. Players use differing tactics in the differing parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Strategy
The goal of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your checkers into your home board and pull them off as quick as you can. This strategy focuses on the speed of advancing your checkers with little or no time spent to hit or barricade your opponent’s pieces. The best time to employ this plan is when you think you might be able to shift your own checkers faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have less chips on the game board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) your opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking plan.
The Blocking Game Technique
The primary aim of the blocking strategy, by the name, is to block your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, not fretting about shifting your chips quickly. As soon as you have established the barrier for the competitor’s movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other pieces quickly off the game board. The player really should also have an apparent plan when to extract and shift the pieces that you employed for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your competitor utilizes the same blocking strategy.