The Essential Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 1
Posted in Backgammon on 02/22/2023 12:25 am by Jillian
The objective of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the game board and pull those pieces off the board faster than your opponent who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a round in Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. How far you can shift your chips is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and how you move your checkers are determined by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use a number of tactics in the different parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Technique
The goal of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your pieces into your inside board and get them off as fast as you can. This plan focuses on the pace of shifting your chips with little or no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s chips. The ideal time to use this technique is when you believe you might be able to shift your own checkers a lot faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the game board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) your opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The primary aim of the blocking plan, by its name, is to stop the competitor’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. After you have established the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other chips rapidly from the board. You should also have a clear strategy when to extract and shift the pieces that you employed for blocking. The game gets intriguing when your opposition uses the same blocking tactic.