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The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part One
The objective of a Backgammon match is to move your chips around the Backgammon board and pull those pieces from the game board quicker than your challenger who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a game in Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. Just how far you can move your chips is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you move your checkers are determined by your overall playing techniques. Enthusiasts use differing plans in the different stages of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Strategy
The goal of the Running Game tactic is to bring all your chips into your inside board and pull them off as quick as you could. This strategy focuses on the pace of shifting your pieces with absolutely no time spent to hit or block your opponent’s chips. The best scenario to use this technique is when you think you might be able to move your own checkers quicker than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s checkers; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The primary aim of the blocking tactic, by the name, is to stop the competitor’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about moving your pieces quickly. Once you have established the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other checkers quickly off the board. You really should also have an apparent plan when to back off and move the checkers that you employed for blocking. The game gets interesting when the opposition uses the same blocking technique.