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The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part One

The objective of a Backgammon game is to shift your chips around the Backgammon board and pull those pieces from the board quicker than your opponent who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a match of Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and good luck. How far you can move your chips is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your chips are determined by your overall gambling strategies. Enthusiasts use different strategies in the differing parts of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your chips into your inside board and bear them off as fast as you can. This tactic concentrates on the speed of advancing your checkers with absolutely no efforts to hit or barricade your opponent’s pieces. The best scenario to employ this strategy is when you believe you can move your own checkers faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the game board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your competitor’s pieces; or 3) your opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Plan

The primary aim of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to block the opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your chips quickly. Once you’ve established the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can shift your other chips quickly off the board. The player should also have a good strategy when to back off and shift the checkers that you employed for the blockade. The game gets interesting when the opponent uses the same blocking tactic.