The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 1
Sunday, 11. February 2024
The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your pieces around the Backgammon board and pull them from the game board quicker than your opposing player who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a match of Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. Just how far you can shift your checkers is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and just how you shift your chips are decided on by your overall playing techniques. Players use differing tactics in the differing parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The aim of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your checkers into your inside board and pull them off as quickly as you can. This plan concentrates on the speed of advancing your checkers with absolutely no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s chips. The best scenario to use this tactic is when you believe you might be able to move your own chips faster than your opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your competitor’s chips; or 3) the opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking plan.
The Blocking Game Technique
The main goal of the blocking technique, by the name, is to block your competitor’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your chips quickly. As soon as you’ve created the blockage for the opponent’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other chips swiftly off the game board. The player should also have an apparent strategy when to withdraw and move the chips that you utilized for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your opposition uses the same blocking strategy.
Posted in Backgammon by Jada