The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part One
The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the game board and pull those pieces off the game board quicker than your opposing player who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round in Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. Just how far you can shift your pieces is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you move your checkers are determined by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use a few strategies in the differing stages of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The aim of the Running Game plan is to entice all your pieces into your inner board and pull them off as quick as you could. This tactic concentrates on the pace of shifting your pieces with absolutely no efforts to hit or barricade your opponent’s pieces. The ideal scenario to employ this tactic is when you believe you might be able to shift your own pieces faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor’s pieces; or 3) your opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Technique
The main goal of the blocking tactic, by its title, is to stop the opponent’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your checkers rapidly. As soon as you have established the blockage for the opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other checkers rapidly from the board. You will need to also have a good plan when to back off and move the checkers that you utilized for blocking. The game gets interesting when your competitor utilizes the same blocking tactic.