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The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part 1

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The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your chips around the game board and pull those pieces from the board quicker than your challenger who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match of Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. Just how far you will be able to move your chips is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and how you shift your pieces are decided on by your overall playing techniques. Players use differing strategies in the different parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The goal of the Running Game plan is to lure all your chips into your inside board and pull them off as quickly as you could. This plan focuses on the speed of shifting your chips with little or no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s chips. The best time to employ this technique is when you believe you can shift your own chips a lot faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your competitor’s chips; or 3) your opponent does not use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main goal of the blocking plan, by its title, is to stop the competitor’s pieces, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your pieces quickly. Once you’ve created the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can shift your other chips quickly from the game board. The player will need to also have a clear strategy when to back off and move the chips that you employed for blocking. The game becomes interesting when the competitor uses the same blocking technique.

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