The Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part One

The aim of a Backgammon match is to move your pieces around the Backgammon board and get them off the board faster than your challenger who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a game in Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and fortune. How far you can move your checkers is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you shift your checkers are decided on by your overall playing techniques. Enthusiasts use differing tactics in the differing stages of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The goal of the Running Game tactic is to bring all your chips into your home board and pull them off as quickly as you could. This tactic focuses on the pace of moving your checkers with no time spent to hit or block your opponent’s chips. The best scenario to use this plan is when you believe you can move your own pieces faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the game board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your opponent’s chips; or 3) your opponent does not use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main aim of the blocking technique, by its title, is to block the competitor’s chips, temporarily, not fretting about shifting your checkers quickly. After you’ve established the barrier for the competitor’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can shift your other checkers swiftly off the game board. You should also have an apparent strategy when to back off and move the pieces that you utilized for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when the opponent utilizes the same blocking technique.