The Essential Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 1
Posted in Backgammon on 07/29/2022 03:25 pm by Zaire
The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the game board and pull those pieces off the game board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match in Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and luck. Just how far you can shift your chips is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and just how you shift your pieces are determined by your overall playing strategies. Enthusiasts use different tactics in the different stages of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The aim of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your pieces into your inside board and get them off as fast as you could. This tactic focuses on the speed of moving your checkers with no time spent to hit or barricade your competitor’s chips. The best time to employ this tactic is when you think you can shift your own chips faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the game board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your competitor’s chips; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Plan
The main aim of the blocking plan, by the name, is to stop your opponent’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your pieces rapidly. Once you’ve established the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other checkers swiftly off the board. You should also have an apparent strategy when to extract and move the pieces that you used for the blockade. The game gets intriguing when the opposition uses the same blocking technique.