The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part One
Posted in Backgammon on 04/13/2019 07:25 pm by Zaire
The goal of a Backgammon match is to shift your pieces around the Backgammon board and pull those pieces off the game board quicker than your opposing player who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match of Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and good luck. How far you will be able to shift your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you shift your checkers are determined by your overall gambling plans. Players use different plans in the differing parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Strategy
The goal of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your pieces into your inner board and get them off as fast as you could. This technique focuses on the pace of advancing your pieces with no efforts to hit or barricade your opponent’s pieces. The ideal time to employ this technique is when you believe you can shift your own chips quicker than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Technique
The primary goal of the blocking plan, by the name, is to stop your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your checkers rapidly. Once you have created the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can shift your other pieces rapidly off the board. The player will need to also have an apparent strategy when to extract and move the chips that you employed for blocking. The game gets interesting when your opposition utilizes the same blocking strategy.