The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part One
Posted in Backgammon on 10/03/2015 01:21 am by Zaire
The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your chips around the Backgammon board and bear them off the game board faster than your opponent who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. Just how far you will be able to shift your chips is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and just how you move your pieces are determined by your overall gambling tactics. Enthusiasts use a few strategies in the differing parts of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The goal of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your pieces into your home board and bear them off as fast as you could. This strategy concentrates on the pace of shifting your pieces with absolutely no efforts to hit or stop your competitor’s chips. The ideal time to use this strategy is when you think you might be able to shift your own chips a lot faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) your opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking tactic.
The Blocking Game Plan
The primary goal of the blocking tactic, by the title, is to block the competitor’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your pieces quickly. As soon as you have created the barrier for your opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can shift your other chips rapidly off the game board. You really should also have an apparent plan when to extract and shift the chips that you employed for the blockade. The game gets interesting when your competitor utilizes the same blocking tactic.