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The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part One

The objective of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the game board and pull them from the board quicker than your competitor who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. How far you can move your chips is left to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and the way you shift your pieces are determined by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use different strategies in the differing parts of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your checkers into your inner board and get them off as fast as you can. This plan focuses on the pace of advancing your chips with absolutely no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s checkers. The best time to employ this plan is when you believe you can shift your own checkers faster than your opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the game board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary aim of the blocking tactic, by its title, is to stop the opponent’s checkers, temporarily, not fretting about shifting your checkers quickly. Once you have created the blockade for your competitor’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other pieces rapidly from the board. The player really should also have a good strategy when to extract and move the checkers that you employed for blocking. The game becomes interesting when the opponent uses the same blocking strategy.