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The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part 1

The aim of a Backgammon match is to move your checkers around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces off the board quicker than your competitor who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a game in Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you can move your chips is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and just how you move your checkers are determined by your overall playing tactics. Players use a few tactics in the differing parts of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The aim of the Running Game technique is to lure all your chips into your home board and pull them off as fast as you could. This technique focuses on the pace of shifting your checkers with little or no time spent to hit or block your competitor’s checkers. The best scenario to employ this tactic is when you believe you can shift your own chips a lot faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have less chips on the game board; 2) all your pieces have past your competitor’s pieces; or 3) your opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main goal of the blocking technique, by the name, is to stop your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, not fretting about moving your checkers rapidly. As soon as you have created the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a few pieces, you can move your other chips swiftly off the board. The player should also have an apparent plan when to withdraw and shift the pieces that you employed for the blockade. The game gets intriguing when your opposition uses the same blocking tactic.

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