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The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part 1

November 3rd, 2022 Leave a comment Go to comments

The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the game board and bear those pieces from the board quicker than your challenger who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a match of Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you can move your checkers is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and just how you move your chips are determined by your overall gambling strategies. Players use a number of techniques in the differing stages of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your chips into your home board and pull them off as quick as you could. This tactic focuses on the pace of advancing your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or stop your competitor’s checkers. The ideal time to employ this technique is when you believe you can move your own pieces faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main goal of the blocking plan, by its title, is to block your competitor’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your chips rapidly. After you’ve established the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other chips quickly off the board. You will need to also have an apparent strategy when to back off and move the pieces that you used for blocking. The game gets interesting when the competitor uses the same blocking strategy.

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