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The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part One

The objective of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the game board and pull those pieces off the board faster than your opposing player who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a match in Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. Just how far you will be able to shift your checkers is left to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and just how you move your checkers are decided on by your overall playing plans. Players use a number of techniques in the differing stages of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your pieces into your inner board and get them off as quick as you can. This strategy focuses on the speed of advancing your chips with absolutely no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s checkers. The best time to employ this tactic is when you believe you might be able to move your own chips quicker than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Plan

The primary aim of the blocking strategy, by the name, is to stop your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your checkers quickly. After you have established the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other checkers rapidly off the game board. The player will need to also have an apparent strategy when to extract and move the checkers that you employed for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when your opposition uses the same blocking technique.

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