The Essential Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 1
The goal of a Backgammon match is to move your pieces around the game board and pull them off the game board quicker than your opposing player who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a match of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. Just how far you will be able to shift your checkers is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and the way you shift your chips are determined by your overall playing strategies. Enthusiasts use a few techniques in the differing parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Strategy
The aim of the Running Game plan is to lure all your chips into your inner board and pull them off as quick as you could. This tactic concentrates on the speed of shifting your pieces with no time spent to hit or stop your competitor’s pieces. The ideal scenario to use this plan is when you think you might be able to shift your own pieces a lot faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the game board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) your opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking plan.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The main aim of the blocking strategy, by its name, is to stop the opponent’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about moving your chips quickly. As soon as you have created the blockage for the opponent’s movement with a few chips, you can shift your other pieces rapidly from the game board. The player should also have a clear plan when to extract and move the pieces that you used for blocking. The game becomes interesting when the competitor uses the same blocking strategy.