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The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 1

The aim of a Backgammon match is to move your checkers around the game board and pull them off the board faster than your challenger who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a round of Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and luck. Just how far you can shift your checkers is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you shift your checkers are decided on by your overall playing strategies. Enthusiasts use differing techniques in the different parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game technique is to bring all your checkers into your home board and pull them off as fast as you can. This technique focuses on the speed of shifting your chips with little or no time spent to hit or block your opponent’s chips. The ideal scenario to use this strategy is when you think you can move your own chips a lot faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the game board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Technique

The main goal of the blocking plan, by the title, is to block your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your pieces quickly. Once you have established the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a few pieces, you can shift your other chips quickly from the game board. The player will need to also have an apparent strategy when to back off and shift the checkers that you used for the blockade. The game becomes intriguing when the opponent uses the same blocking tactic.

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