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The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 1

September 30th, 2017 Leave a comment Go to comments
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The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the game board and get them from the board faster than your opposing player who works harder to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a round in Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. How far you can shift your chips is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and just how you move your pieces are determined by your overall gambling tactics. Enthusiasts use different tactics in the different parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game plan is to entice all your pieces into your inner board and bear them off as quick as you could. This tactic concentrates on the speed of advancing your checkers with no time spent to hit or block your opponent’s chips. The best time to employ this strategy is when you think you might be able to move your own checkers quicker than the opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the game board; 2) all your checkers have past your opponent’s checkers; or 3) your opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Plan

The primary goal of the blocking plan, by the name, is to stop the competitor’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about moving your chips quickly. Once you’ve established the blockage for the competitor’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other checkers quickly off the board. The player should also have a clear plan when to extract and shift the pieces that you employed for the blockade. The game gets interesting when your competitor uses the same blocking strategy.

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