Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 30-06-2017
The aim of a Backgammon match is to move your checkers around the game board and pull those pieces off the game board quicker than your opposing player who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match in Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. Just how far you will be able to move your pieces is left to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and how you move your checkers are decided on by your overall playing strategies. Players use a few tactics in the differing parts of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Strategy
The goal of the Running Game tactic is to bring all your chips into your home board and get them off as quick as you could. This strategy focuses on the speed of moving your checkers with absolutely no efforts to hit or stop your competitor’s chips. The best time to use this strategy is when you think you might be able to shift your own pieces faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your checkers have past your opponent’s pieces; or 3) your opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Technique
The main aim of the blocking technique, by its title, is to block the opponent’s chips, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your pieces rapidly. Once you have established the barrier for the opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other checkers swiftly off the game board. You really should also have a good strategy when to extract and shift the pieces that you used for the blockade. The game gets interesting when the competitor uses the same blocking tactic.