The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part One
Posted in Backgammon on 12/28/2023 10:25 pm by Jillian
The goal of a Backgammon match is to move your chips around the Backgammon board and pull those pieces from the board quicker than your competitor who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a game in Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. How far you can shift your chips is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you move your pieces are decided on by your overall playing strategies. Enthusiasts use a number of techniques in the differing parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Technique
The goal of the Running Game technique is to lure all your pieces into your inner board and pull them off as quickly as you could. This plan focuses on the speed of moving your checkers with absolutely no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s chips. The best time to use this plan is when you think you can move your own pieces a lot faster than your opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) the opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Strategy
The main aim of the blocking tactic, by the title, is to block your competitor’s chips, temporarily, not fretting about shifting your checkers quickly. As soon as you have created the blockage for the competitor’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other checkers rapidly from the game board. You really should also have a good strategy when to back off and shift the chips that you employed for blocking. The game gets intriguing when the competitor uses the same blocking tactic.