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The Essential Details of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 1

The objective of a Backgammon match is to shift your checkers around the Backgammon board and pull them from the game board faster than your opposing player who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a round in Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and good luck. Just how far you will be able to shift your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and the way you shift your pieces are determined by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use a few strategies in the differing parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game technique is to bring all your pieces into your home board and pull them off as fast as you can. This plan focuses on the pace of advancing your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s checkers. The best scenario to use this tactic is when you believe you might be able to shift your own chips quicker than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent’s checkers; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main goal of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to stop the opponent’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. After you have established the barrier for the opponent’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other checkers rapidly off the game board. The player should also have a good plan when to extract and move the checkers that you employed for the blockade. The game gets interesting when the opposition utilizes the same blocking strategy.