The Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 1
Friday, 8. September 2023
The objective of a Backgammon game is to move your chips around the game board and bear them from the game board faster than your opposing player who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match of Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and fortune. Just how far you will be able to shift your checkers is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and just how you shift your chips are determined by your overall playing techniques. Players use differing strategies in the different parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Plan
The aim of the Running Game tactic is to bring all your chips into your home board and bear them off as fast as you could. This tactic focuses on the speed of moving your pieces with absolutely no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s pieces. The best scenario to employ this technique is when you think you might be able to shift your own chips faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Plan
The primary goal of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to block the competitor’s chips, temporarily, not fretting about moving your checkers quickly. After you’ve created the barrier for your opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other pieces rapidly off the game board. You should also have a clear strategy when to back off and shift the pieces that you used for blocking. The game becomes interesting when the competitor utilizes the same blocking tactic.
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