The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part 1

The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your chips around the game board and get those pieces from the board quicker than your opponent who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round of Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. How far you will be able to move your checkers is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you shift your chips are decided on by your overall playing strategies. Players use a number of strategies in the different parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your chips into your inner board and get them off as fast as you can. This strategy focuses on the speed of advancing your chips with absolutely no time spent to hit or block your competitor’s checkers. The ideal scenario to use this tactic is when you think you can shift your own pieces faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main goal of the blocking tactic, by its title, is to stop your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your checkers quickly. Once you have created the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other checkers quickly off the game board. You should also have a good plan when to withdraw and shift the pieces that you used for the blockade. The game becomes intriguing when the opposition uses the same blocking tactic.