The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your pieces around the Backgammon board and get them from the board quicker than your opposing player who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a match in Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and luck. How far you can shift your chips is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and just how you shift your chips are decided on by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use different plans in the different stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Technique
The goal of the Running Game technique is to lure all your chips into your home board and get them off as quick as you can. This tactic concentrates on the pace of shifting your checkers with absolutely no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s chips. The ideal time to employ this technique is when you believe you might be able to move your own chips quicker than your opposition does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s pieces; or 3) your opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking plan.
The Blocking Game Plan
The main aim of the blocking tactic, by the title, is to block your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your checkers rapidly. As soon as you have established the blockage for your opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other pieces swiftly from the board. You will need to also have a good strategy when to extract and move the chips that you utilized for blocking. The game gets intriguing when your opponent uses the same blocking technique.