Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 18-05-2007
The objective of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the game board and pull those pieces off the game board quicker than your opposing player who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. How far you will be able to move your pieces is up to the numbers from tossing the dices, and just how you shift your chips are determined by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use different tactics in the different parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The goal of the Running Game tactic is to entice all your pieces into your home board and get them off as quickly as you can. This tactic concentrates on the speed of shifting your pieces with little or no efforts to hit or stop your competitor’s checkers. The ideal time to use this technique is when you believe you can shift your own checkers quicker than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your opponent’s chips; or 3) the opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Strategy
The main goal of the blocking strategy, by the name, is to stop your competitor’s chips, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your pieces rapidly. Once you’ve created the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can shift your other pieces rapidly from the game board. The player really should also have a apparent plan when to extract and move the pieces that you used for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when your opponent utilizes the same blocking tactic.