The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part One
Posted in Backgammon on 05/20/2020 03:25 pm by Zaire
The objective of a Backgammon game is to shift your chips around the game board and pull them from the game board faster than your competitor who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match of Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and good luck. How far you can shift your chips is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and just how you move your chips are decided on by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use a few plans in the different stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Technique
The aim of the Running Game tactic is to bring all your checkers into your inside board and pull them off as quick as you can. This strategy focuses on the speed of advancing your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or barricade your opponent’s pieces. The best scenario to use this tactic is when you believe you can move your own checkers a lot faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have less pieces on the game board; 2) all your pieces have past your opponent’s chips; or 3) the opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Strategy
The main goal of the blocking technique, by the name, is to stop your competitor’s checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your checkers quickly. Once you’ve established the blockade for your competitor’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other chips quickly from the board. The player will need to also have an apparent strategy when to back off and move the chips that you used for the blockade. The game becomes intriguing when your opponent utilizes the same blocking tactic.