The Essential Facts of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 1
Posted in Backgammon on 01/05/2020 06:25 pm by Jillian
The aim of a Backgammon game is to move your chips around the game board and pull them off the board faster than your competitor who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match of Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. Just how far you will be able to shift 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 strategies. Players use differing tactics in the differing parts of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The aim of the Running Game plan is to bring all your pieces into your inside board and bear them off as quickly as you can. This tactic focuses on the speed of shifting your chips with little or no time spent to hit or block your opponent’s checkers. The ideal scenario to employ this tactic is when you believe you might be able to shift your own checkers quicker than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Plan
The main goal of the blocking tactic, by its title, is to block your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your pieces quickly. After you have established the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can shift your other checkers rapidly from the board. You will need to also have a good strategy when to back off and shift the pieces that you used for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when your opposition utilizes the same blocking tactic.