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The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part One

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The goal of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the game board and bear them from the board faster than your challenger who works harder to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. Just how far you can shift your chips is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and just how you move your pieces are determined by your overall playing tactics. Players use differing techniques in the differing stages of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game plan is to entice all your checkers into your inner board and get them off as fast as you can. This tactic focuses on the speed of moving your chips with little or no time spent to hit or barricade your opponent’s checkers. The best time to employ this technique is when you think you can shift your own checkers a lot faster than your opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your opponent’s checkers; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main aim of the blocking plan, by its name, is to block the opponent’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your chips quickly. As soon as you’ve created the blockage for the competitor’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can shift your other checkers swiftly from the board. The player will need to also have a good plan when to extract and move the pieces that you used for the blockade. The game becomes intriguing when your opposition utilizes the same blocking technique.

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