The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part One
Posted in Backgammon on 09/15/2015 01:21 pm by Madisyn
The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your pieces around the Backgammon board and bear them from the board quicker than your competitor who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a round of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. Just how far you can move your checkers is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and just how you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing strategies. Players use a number of plans in the different stages of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Plan
The goal of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your checkers into your inside board and pull them off as fast as you can. This plan focuses on the pace of shifting your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s checkers. The best scenario to use this technique is when you think you can shift your own checkers faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the game board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your competitor’s chips; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The primary goal of the blocking technique, by the title, is to stop your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. Once you have established the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other checkers swiftly from the game board. You will need to also have a clear plan when to withdraw and shift the chips that you used for blocking. The game gets interesting when the opposition uses the same blocking strategy.