Backgammon

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The aim of a Backgammon match is to move your checkers around the game board and bear them from the board faster than your competitor who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round in Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and good luck. Just how far you will be able to move your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and the way you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use a few techniques in the different parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your checkers into your inside board and pull them off as fast as you can. This tactic concentrates on the speed of moving your checkers with absolutely no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s checkers. The best time to use this technique is when you think you might be able to shift your own chips a lot faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your checkers have past your opponent’s chips; or 3) the opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Plan

The primary aim of the blocking tactic, by the title, is to stop the opponent’s checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your checkers rapidly. Once you’ve established the barrier for the opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can shift your other chips quickly off the game board. The player will need to also have a clear strategy when to extract and shift the pieces that you used for the blockade. The game becomes intriguing when your opponent utilizes the same blocking strategy.