The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part One
Posted in Backgammon on 08/08/2025 12:25 am by Jillian
The objective of a Backgammon game is to shift your pieces around the Backgammon board and bear them from the game board faster than your challenger who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a match in Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and fortune. How far you will be able to shift your checkers is left to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and the way you move your checkers are determined by your overall playing strategies. Players use a number of techniques in the differing parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Technique
The aim of the Running Game tactic is to lure all your chips into your home board and pull them off as quickly as you can. This plan focuses on the speed of shifting your pieces with little or no time spent to hit or stop your opponent’s pieces. The best scenario to employ this tactic is when you believe you might be able to move your own chips quicker than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s chips; or 3) your opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Plan
The primary aim of the blocking technique, by its name, is to block the competitor’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your checkers quickly. As soon as you have established the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a couple of chips, you can shift your other pieces rapidly off the game board. You will need to also have an apparent plan when to withdraw and shift the chips that you employed for the blockade. The game gets intriguing when the competitor uses the same blocking tactic.