The Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 1
Posted in Backgammon on 06/05/2018 08:25 am by Zaire
The goal of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the game board and get them off the game board faster than your challenger who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a game of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. How far you can move your chips is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and just how you shift your chips are decided on by your overall playing strategies. Players use differing techniques in the differing stages of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The goal of the Running Game plan is to lure all your chips into your inside board and get them off as quick as you can. This strategy concentrates on the pace of advancing your chips with no efforts to hit or stop your competitor’s chips. The best time to use this plan is when you believe you can shift your own chips quicker than your opposition does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your checkers have past your opponent’s chips; or 3) the opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Technique
The primary aim of the blocking technique, by the name, is to stop the competitor’s chips, temporarily, not fretting about moving your chips quickly. Once you have established the blockage for your opponent’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can shift your other checkers quickly from the board. You will need to also have an apparent plan when to back off and shift the pieces that you employed for blocking. The game becomes interesting when the opponent uses the same blocking tactic.