The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 1
Posted in Backgammon on 10/08/2024 08:25 pm by Zaire
The aim of a Backgammon match is to move your pieces around the Backgammon board and pull them from the board faster than your opposing player who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a game of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. How far you can move your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you move your chips are decided on by your overall gambling tactics. Players use a number of strategies in the differing stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Technique
The aim of the Running Game tactic is to lure all your checkers into your home board and get them off as fast as you can. This tactic concentrates on the speed of moving your checkers with no time spent to hit or barricade your opponent’s chips. The ideal scenario to use this tactic is when you think you might be able to move your own chips quicker than the opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the game board; 2) all your pieces have past your opponent’s pieces; or 3) your opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Strategy
The primary aim of the blocking strategy, by its title, is to stop the competitor’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about moving your pieces rapidly. As soon as you’ve established the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a couple of chips, you can shift your other checkers swiftly off the board. You really should also have an apparent strategy when to extract and shift the chips that you employed for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when your opposition utilizes the same blocking tactic.