The Essential Details of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 1
Posted in Backgammon on 04/20/2016 03:21 am by Zaire
The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the Backgammon board and pull them off the game board faster than your opponent 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 good luck. How far you can shift your chips is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you move your pieces are determined by your overall playing techniques. Players use different plans in the differing parts of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Strategy
The aim of the Running Game plan is to lure all your checkers into your home board and pull them off as quick as you can. This strategy focuses on the speed of advancing your pieces with little or no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s pieces. The ideal scenario to employ this strategy is when you think you can shift your own pieces a lot faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have less chips on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The primary goal of the blocking plan, by the name, is to block the competitor’s chips, temporarily, not fretting about moving your pieces quickly. As soon as you have established the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other checkers rapidly from the game board. The player will need to also have a good strategy when to withdraw and move the checkers that you used for blocking. The game gets intriguing when the competitor uses the same blocking technique.