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The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 1

The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the game board and get them from the game board faster than your competitor who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a match of Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and good luck. How far you can shift your checkers is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you shift your chips are determined by your overall gambling techniques. Players use a few plans in the different stages of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The goal of the Running Game technique is to entice all your checkers into your inner board and get them off as quickly as you could. This plan concentrates on the speed of moving your chips with little or no time spent to hit or stop your opponent’s checkers. The ideal time to employ this plan is when you think you can shift your own pieces a lot faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; or 3) the opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Technique

The primary goal of the blocking technique, by its title, is to block your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your chips quickly. After you’ve established the barrier for the opponent’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other chips quickly from the board. The player should also have a good strategy when to extract and move the pieces that you utilized for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when the opponent uses the same blocking strategy.

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