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The Essential Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part One
The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the Backgammon board and get those pieces from the game board faster than your opposing player who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round in Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. How far you will be able to shift your checkers is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and just how you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing plans. Players use a number of tactics in the differing stages of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The aim of the Running Game tactic is to entice all your checkers into your inner board and pull them off as quick as you could. This plan concentrates on the speed of advancing your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s pieces. The ideal time to employ this technique is when you think you can shift your own checkers faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have less chips on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) your opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking plan.
The Blocking Game Technique
The main goal of the blocking strategy, by the title, is to stop the competitor’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about moving your checkers rapidly. After you’ve established the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can shift your other chips quickly off the game board. You should also have a good plan when to back off and move the pieces that you utilized for the blockade. The game becomes intriguing when the opposition utilizes the same blocking strategy.