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The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 1

The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the Backgammon board and bear them off the game board faster than your opposing player who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a round of Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. How far you will be able to move your chips is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you move your chips are decided on by your overall gambling strategies. Enthusiasts use different strategies in the differing stages of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your chips into your inside board and bear them off as quick as you could. This plan focuses on the speed of moving your checkers with no time spent to hit or block your opponent’s chips. The ideal scenario to use this strategy is when you believe you might be able to shift your own checkers faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have less chips on the game board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Technique

The main goal of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to block the competitor’s checkers, temporarily, not fretting about shifting your checkers quickly. Once you have created the barrier for your opponent’s movement with a few pieces, you can shift your other chips rapidly off the board. You will need to also have an apparent strategy when to back off and shift the pieces that you utilized for the blockade. The game gets interesting when your opposition uses the same blocking technique.

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