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The Essential Details of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 1

The objective of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the Backgammon board and pull them from the board quicker than your opposing player who works harder to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and luck. Just how far you can move your checkers is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you move your pieces are decided on by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use a number of plans in the differing stages of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your pieces into your inside board and bear them off as quickly as you could. This strategy focuses on the speed of shifting your checkers with no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s checkers. The best time to employ this technique is when you think you might be able to shift your own pieces faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) your opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Technique

The main goal of the blocking tactic, by its title, is to stop the competitor’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about moving your checkers quickly. As soon as you’ve established the blockade for your competitor’s movement with a few pieces, you can move your other chips rapidly off the board. You should also have an apparent strategy when to extract and move the pieces that you utilized for the blockade. The game gets interesting when your opponent uses the same blocking strategy.