The Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part One
Posted in Backgammon on 08/12/2017 08:25 am by Zaire
The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your pieces around the game board and bear those pieces off the board faster than your opponent who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round of Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. How far you can shift your chips is up to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you shift your checkers are decided on by your overall playing techniques. Players use a number of techniques in the different stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The aim of the Running Game tactic is to entice all your pieces into your home board and pull them off as fast as you can. This strategy concentrates on the speed of moving your chips with little or no time spent to hit or stop your opponent’s checkers. The ideal time to use this plan is when you think you might be able to move your own pieces a lot faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor’s pieces; or 3) your opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking plan.
The Blocking Game Technique
The primary goal of the blocking plan, by the name, is to stop the competitor’s pieces, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. As soon as you’ve established the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a few pieces, you can move your other chips swiftly off the board. The player should also have a good plan when to extract and shift the checkers that you utilized for blocking. The game gets intriguing when your opposition utilizes the same blocking technique.