The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 1
The aim of a Backgammon match is to move your chips around the game board and pull them from the game board faster than your opponent who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match of Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. Just how far you will be able to move your chips is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and how you move your pieces are determined by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use differing techniques in the different stages of a game 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 inner board and bear them off as fast as you can. This tactic concentrates on the pace of moving your checkers with little or no time spent to hit or barricade your opponent’s pieces. The ideal scenario to employ this strategy is when you think you might be able to shift your own pieces a lot faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) your opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The primary aim of the blocking tactic, by the title, is to stop the competitor’s checkers, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your chips rapidly. Once you’ve created the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other chips quickly off the board. The player will need to also have a good strategy when to extract and move the checkers that you used for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your opponent uses the same blocking tactic.