Backgammon Tricks

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The objective of a Backgammon match is to move your chips around the game board and get those pieces off the board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a game in Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. Just how far you can move your chips is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use a number of plans in the differing stages of a match based 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 home board and bear them off as quickly as you could. This technique focuses on the pace of advancing your checkers with absolutely no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s checkers. The ideal scenario to employ this strategy is when you believe you can shift your own pieces a lot faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Plan

The primary aim of the blocking technique, by the title, is to stop your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your pieces rapidly. After you have created the barrier for the competitor’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other chips rapidly from the board. You really should also have a clear plan when to back off and shift the checkers that you employed for the blockade. The game gets intriguing when the opposition utilizes the same blocking tactic.