The Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part One
The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your chips around the game board and pull those pieces off the board faster than your challenger 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. How far you will be able to shift your chips is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and the way you move your chips are determined by your overall gambling tactics. Enthusiasts use differing strategies in the different parts of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The goal of the Running Game plan is to lure all your pieces into your inner board and bear them off as quick as you can. This technique focuses on the pace of advancing your pieces with absolutely no time spent to hit or barricade your competitor’s chips. The ideal scenario to employ this strategy is when you believe you can shift your own chips faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opponent does not use the hitting or blocking plan.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The main goal of the blocking plan, by its title, is to stop the competitor’s checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your checkers rapidly. Once you’ve established the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other chips swiftly from the board. The player should also have a clear strategy when to extract and move the chips that you employed for blocking. The game gets interesting when your opponent utilizes the same blocking tactic.