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The Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part One
The goal of a Backgammon match is to move your chips around the game board and bear them off the game board quicker than your opposing player who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a game of Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. How far you can shift your chips is up to the numbers from tossing the dice, and just how you shift your checkers are decided on by your overall playing strategies. Players use a number of tactics in the differing parts of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Plan
The goal of the Running Game tactic is to entice all your checkers into your inner board and bear them off as fast as you can. This tactic concentrates on the pace of shifting your chips with little or no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s pieces. The best time to use this tactic is when you believe you might be able to move your own pieces faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your opponent’s chips; or 3) your opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking tactic.
The Blocking Game Plan
The main aim of the blocking plan, by its name, is to block your competitor’s chips, temporarily, not fretting about shifting your checkers quickly. Once you have established the barrier for the competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other pieces quickly off the board. The player should also have a good strategy when to back off and shift the checkers that you utilized for the blockade. The game gets interesting when your opposition uses the same blocking strategy.
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