The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part One
Thursday, 15. March 2018
The aim of a Backgammon match is to move your pieces around the game board and bear them from the board quicker than your challenger who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a round of Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and fortune. How far you can shift your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and just how you shift your checkers are decided on by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use a few techniques in the differing parts of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Strategy
The goal of the Running Game plan is to entice all your chips into your inner board and bear them off as fast as you could. This strategy focuses on the pace of shifting your chips with little or no time spent to hit or block your opponent’s chips. The best time to use this plan is when you believe you can move your own checkers faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the game board; 2) all your checkers have past your opponent’s chips; or 3) your opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Plan
The main aim of the blocking plan, by its name, is to stop your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your checkers quickly. Once you have established the barrier for the opponent’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other chips swiftly from the game board. The player will need to also have a good strategy when to back off and shift the pieces that you employed for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when your opponent utilizes the same blocking strategy.
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