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The Essential Facts of Backgammon Game Plans – Part One

The aim of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the game board and get them from the board quicker than your competitor who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round of Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you can move your checkers is left to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and how you shift your pieces are determined by your overall gambling tactics. Players use a number of strategies in the differing stages of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game technique is to entice all your pieces into your inside board and bear them off as fast as you could. This technique focuses on the pace of moving your chips with little or no time spent to hit or block your competitor’s chips. The best scenario to employ this plan is when you think you can move your own chips quicker than your opposition does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your competitor’s chips; or 3) the opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Plan

The primary aim of the blocking tactic, by its title, is to stop your competitor’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your chips rapidly. After you’ve established the blockage for your opponent’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can shift your other pieces swiftly off the game board. The player will need to also have a clear strategy when to withdraw and shift the chips that you used for the blockade. The game gets interesting when your competitor uses the same blocking strategy.

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