The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part One
Posted in Backgammon on 08/30/2015 01:21 pm by Zaire
The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the game board and get them off the game board faster than your opponent who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a round in Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. How far you will be able to move your checkers is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your checkers are decided on by your overall gambling plans. Players use a number of tactics in the differing stages of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Strategy
The goal of the Running Game tactic is to bring all your pieces into your home board and get them off as fast as you could. This technique concentrates on the pace of advancing your pieces with absolutely no time spent to hit or block your competitor’s chips. The ideal time to employ this tactic is when you believe you can move your own checkers quicker than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your opponent’s chips; or 3) your opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking tactic.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The main goal of the blocking plan, by the title, is to stop the opponent’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your pieces quickly. As soon as you have established the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other pieces rapidly off the board. You really should also have an apparent plan when to extract and move the checkers that you used for blocking. The game gets intriguing when your competitor uses the same blocking tactic.