Backgammon

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The goal of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces from the board quicker than your competitor who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match in Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. Just how far you will be able to shift your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your pieces are determined by your overall gambling tactics. Players use a number of techniques in the differing parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game technique is to lure all your checkers into your inner board and pull them off as quickly as you could. This tactic focuses on the pace of shifting your pieces with no time spent to hit or barricade your competitor’s pieces. The best scenario to employ this tactic is when you believe you might be able to shift your own checkers quicker than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the game board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your competitor’s pieces; or 3) your opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary goal of the blocking technique, by its title, is to stop your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your pieces rapidly. As soon as you’ve established the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can move your other pieces rapidly off the board. You really should also have a clear plan when to withdraw and move the chips that you employed for blocking. The game gets interesting when your competitor uses the same blocking strategy.