The Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 1
Tuesday, 24. June 2025
The aim of a Backgammon game is to move your chips around the game board and get those pieces off the board faster than your competitor who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a round in Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and luck. How far you can move your pieces is up to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you shift your chips are determined by your overall gambling tactics. Enthusiasts use differing strategies in the different parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The goal of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your pieces into your home board and pull them off as quick as you can. This technique focuses on the speed of moving your pieces with absolutely no time spent to hit or stop your opponent’s checkers. The ideal scenario to use this technique is when you believe you might be able to move your own checkers a lot faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your competitor’s chips; or 3) the opponent does not use the hitting or blocking plan.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The primary aim of the blocking strategy, by its title, is to block your competitor’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your chips rapidly. Once you’ve created the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can move your other pieces quickly from the game board. The player will need to also have a clear plan when to extract and move the checkers that you utilized for blocking. The game gets intriguing when your competitor utilizes the same blocking strategy.
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