The Essential Details of Backgammon Game Plans – Part One

The goal of a Backgammon match 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 do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match in Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. How far you will be able to move your pieces is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and how you move your chips are determined by your overall gambling plans. Enthusiasts use differing strategies in the different parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your pieces into your inner board and pull them off as quickly as you can. This tactic focuses on the pace of advancing your pieces with little or no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s chips. The ideal scenario to employ this tactic is when you believe you might be able to move your own chips quicker than the opponent does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s chips; or 3) the opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Plan

The primary goal of the blocking strategy, by its name, is to block the competitor’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about moving your chips rapidly. Once you’ve created the barrier for the opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can shift your other pieces rapidly off the board. You should also have a clear strategy when to withdraw and shift the checkers that you employed for the blockade. The game becomes intriguing when the competitor utilizes the same blocking technique.