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The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part One

The objective of a Backgammon match is to move your pieces around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces from the board quicker than your opponent who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match in Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and good luck. Just how far you can shift your checkers is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and just how you move your checkers are decided on by your overall playing strategies. Players use a number of plans in the different stages of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your checkers into your home board and bear them off as quick as you can. This plan focuses on the speed of moving your pieces with little or no time spent to hit or stop your competitor’s pieces. The best time to use this technique is when you believe you can move your own pieces quicker than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your competitor’s chips; or 3) your opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Plan

The primary aim of the blocking strategy, by the name, is to stop the opponent’s pieces, temporarily, not fretting about moving your pieces rapidly. Once you’ve created the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can shift your other checkers rapidly off the board. The player will need to also have a good plan when to back off and shift the checkers that you utilized for blocking. The game gets intriguing when your opponent utilizes the same blocking technique.

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