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The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part One

The aim of a Backgammon match is to move your pieces around the game board and pull them off the board quicker than your challenger who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a round in Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and luck. How far you will be able to shift your checkers is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and just how you shift your pieces are decided on by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use a few strategies in the different parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The aim of the Running Game tactic is to lure all your pieces into your inner board and bear them off as quickly as you can. This technique focuses on the speed of moving your chips with little or no time spent to hit or block your competitor’s checkers. The ideal scenario to use this plan is when you believe you can shift your own checkers a lot faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your competitor’s chips; or 3) your opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Technique

The primary goal of the blocking technique, by the name, is to block the competitor’s checkers, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your chips rapidly. After you have created the barrier for the opponent’s movement with a few chips, you can shift your other checkers quickly off the board. The player should also have a good plan when to withdraw and move the chips that you employed for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when your opposition uses the same blocking strategy.

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