The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part 1

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Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 21-08-2017

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The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the game board and get those pieces from the game board faster than your opponent who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a match of Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. Just how far you can shift your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and just how you shift your chips are decided on by your overall playing strategies. Enthusiasts use different strategies in the differing parts of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your pieces into your inside board and bear them off as fast as you could. This plan focuses on the speed of moving your pieces with little or no time spent to hit or stop your competitor’s checkers. The best time to use this technique is when you believe you might be able to shift your own pieces quicker than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main goal of the blocking plan, by its name, is to block the competitor’s checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. Once you have established the blockage for your opponent’s movement with a few pieces, you can shift your other pieces swiftly off the board. You should also have an apparent plan when to withdraw and move the pieces that you utilized for the blockade. The game gets intriguing when your opposition uses the same blocking technique.

The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two

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Posted by Darien | Posted in Backgammon | Posted on 06-08-2017

As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of the opponent, your competitor does not even get to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is frequently utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.