The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 1
Posted in Backgammon on 11/10/2019 10:25 pm by Zaire
The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your checkers around the Backgammon board and pull them off the game board quicker than your competitor who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a match in Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. Just how far you will be able to shift your pieces is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you move your checkers are determined by your overall gambling techniques. Enthusiasts use a few tactics in the differing stages of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Technique
The goal of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your pieces into your inside board and get them off as fast as you can. This plan concentrates on the pace of shifting your chips with little or no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s checkers. The best scenario to use this tactic is when you think you can move your own pieces quicker than your opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent’s checkers; or 3) your opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking plan.
The Blocking Game Technique
The primary aim of the blocking strategy, by its name, is to block the competitor’s checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. As soon as you have created the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a few pieces, you can shift your other chips swiftly from the board. The player should also have a good strategy when to withdraw and shift the pieces that you used for blocking. The game gets interesting when the competitor utilizes the same blocking technique.