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The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part One

The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the game board and pull those pieces from the board quicker than your competitor who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a round of Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. How far you will be able to move your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and the way you shift your pieces are determined by your overall gambling plans. Players use a few techniques in the different parts of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game plan is to lure all your checkers into your home board and pull 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 barricade your competitor’s pieces. The ideal scenario to use this strategy is when you believe you can move your own chips faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have less chips on the game board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your competitor’s chips; or 3) your opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Technique

The primary goal of the blocking tactic, by its title, is to stop the opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your chips rapidly. Once you have established the barrier for the competitor’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other checkers rapidly off the game board. The player really should also have a good strategy when to extract and move the checkers that you utilized for blocking. The game becomes interesting when the opposition utilizes the same blocking tactic.