The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part One
Tuesday, 22. December 2015
The goal of a Backgammon match is to shift your checkers around the game board and pull them off the board quicker than your opponent who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match in Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. How far you can move your chips is up to the numbers from tossing the dice, and just how you shift your chips are determined by your overall gambling strategies. Enthusiasts use differing strategies in the differing stages of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Strategy
The aim of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your checkers into your home board and get them off as fast as you can. This tactic concentrates on the speed of shifting your chips with little or no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s pieces. The ideal time to use this strategy is when you think you can shift your own checkers faster than your opposing player does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Plan
The main aim of the blocking technique, by the name, is to block the opponent’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about moving your pieces rapidly. Once you have created the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can shift your other checkers swiftly off the game board. The player will need to also have an apparent plan when to extract and shift the pieces that you utilized for blocking. The game gets intriguing when your opponent uses the same blocking strategy.
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