The Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 1
Posted in Backgammon on 05/26/2019 09:25 am by Jillian
The goal of a Backgammon match is to move your checkers around the game board and pull those pieces from the board faster than your competitor who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match in Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you can move your pieces is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you move your chips are determined by your overall gambling tactics. Enthusiasts use different techniques in the differing stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The goal of the Running Game plan is to bring all your checkers into your inside board and bear them off as fast as you can. This plan concentrates on the pace of shifting your pieces with absolutely no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s pieces. The best time to employ this strategy is when you think you can shift your own chips quicker than your opponent does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s checkers; or 3) your opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking plan.
The Blocking Game Plan
The primary goal of the blocking strategy, by the name, is to block the competitor’s chips, temporarily, not fretting about shifting your checkers quickly. As soon as you’ve established the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can shift your other checkers swiftly from the board. You should also have an apparent strategy when to back off and shift the chips that you employed for blocking. The game gets interesting when the competitor utilizes the same blocking tactic.