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The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part One

August 30th, 2015 Leave a comment Go to comments
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The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your chips around the game board and pull them off the board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match in Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. Just how far you will be able to move your checkers is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you move your chips are determined by your overall gambling tactics. Players use differing tactics in the differing parts of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The aim of the Running Game tactic is to lure all your chips into your inner board and pull them off as quick as you can. This strategy focuses on the pace of advancing your chips with little or no time spent to hit or stop your competitor’s chips. The ideal scenario to employ this strategy is when you think you can move your own checkers faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main goal of the blocking strategy, by its name, is to stop the opponent’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about moving your pieces quickly. After you’ve created the blockage for the opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can shift your other pieces rapidly from the game board. You will need to also have a good plan when to back off and shift the pieces that you utilized for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your opponent uses the same blocking strategy.

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