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The Essential Facts of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 1

The aim of a Backgammon match is to move your checkers around the Backgammon board and bear them off the board faster than your opposing player who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match in Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and luck. How far you can move your checkers is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your checkers are determined by your overall gambling tactics. Enthusiasts use different plans in the differing stages of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The aim of the Running Game technique is to entice all your chips into your inner board and get them off as fast as you can. This plan focuses on the speed of moving your pieces with little or no efforts to hit or stop your competitor’s pieces. The best scenario to use this plan is when you believe you can shift your own chips quicker than the opponent does: when 1) you have less pieces on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) your opponent does not use the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary aim of the blocking technique, by its name, is to stop the opponent’s chips, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your chips quickly. After you have established the barrier for the opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other checkers quickly from the game board. The player will need to also have a clear strategy when to withdraw and shift the pieces that you employed for the blockade. The game becomes intriguing when your opposition uses the same blocking strategy.