The Essential Facts of Backgammon Game Plans – Part One
Posted in Backgammon on 04/28/2018 02:25 pm by Zaire
The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the Backgammon board and get those pieces off the board faster than your opponent who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a game in Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. Just how far you can move your checkers is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and just how you move your chips are decided on by your overall playing techniques. Players use a few techniques in the different parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The aim of the Running Game technique is to bring all your chips into your inner board and bear them off as fast as you could. This tactic focuses on the pace of moving your chips with no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s checkers. The best time to employ this plan is when you think you might be able to move your own chips faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor’s chips; or 3) your opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking plan.
The Blocking Game Plan
The main goal of the blocking technique, by the name, is to stop the competitor’s pieces, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. As soon as you’ve created the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can shift your other pieces rapidly off the board. You will need to also have an apparent strategy when to back off and move the chips that you employed for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when your competitor utilizes the same blocking strategy.