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The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part One

The objective of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the game board and bear them from the board faster than your challenger who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match of Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and luck. How far you can move your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and just how you move your checkers are decided on by your overall playing plans. Players use differing techniques in the different parts of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game technique is to bring all your checkers into your inner board and get them off as fast as you could. This strategy focuses on the speed of moving your chips with absolutely no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s pieces. The ideal scenario to use this tactic is when you believe you can shift your own chips quicker than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s chips; or 3) your opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main goal of the blocking technique, by the title, is to block your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your chips rapidly. After you’ve created the barrier for your opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other pieces rapidly from the game board. The player should also have an apparent plan when to back off and shift the chips that you used for the blockade. The game gets interesting when your opponent utilizes the same blocking technique.