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The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 1

The objective of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the game board and pull those pieces from the board faster than your opposing player who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a game in Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. How far you can shift your chips is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your pieces are determined by your overall gambling tactics. Enthusiasts use different plans in the differing parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The aim of the Running Game technique is to lure all your checkers into your home board and pull them off as fast as you could. This plan focuses on the speed of moving your checkers with absolutely no time spent to hit or barricade your competitor’s pieces. The best time to use this plan is when you believe you might be able to shift your own checkers faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main goal of the blocking technique, by the title, is to block the opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your chips rapidly. Once you have established the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can move your other pieces rapidly off the board. The player will need to also have an apparent strategy when to withdraw and shift the chips that you used for the blockade. The game gets interesting when the opponent utilizes the same blocking tactic.

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