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The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part One
The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the game board and bear them from the board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a game in Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you will be able to shift your pieces is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and just how you shift your checkers are decided on by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use a number of plans in the differing parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The aim of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your chips into your inside board and bear them off as fast as you can. This tactic focuses on the pace of advancing your checkers with no time spent to hit or barricade your competitor’s checkers. The ideal time to use this technique is when you think you can move your own pieces quicker than your opposing player does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent’s pieces; or 3) your opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking tactic.
The Blocking Game Technique
The main goal of the blocking plan, by the name, is to stop the competitor’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your chips quickly. After you’ve created the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other checkers quickly from the board. The player really should also have a good plan when to back off and shift the pieces that you used for the blockade. The game gets interesting when the opponent uses the same blocking technique.