The Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part One
The aim of a Backgammon match is to move your checkers around the game board and bear those pieces off the game board faster than your competitor who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a match in Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and luck. Just how far you can move your chips is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you shift your checkers are determined by your overall gambling tactics. Enthusiasts use a few techniques in the differing stages of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Technique
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 focuses on the speed of moving your chips with little or no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s checkers. The ideal scenario to employ this technique is when you think you can move your own chips quicker than your opponent does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; or 3) the opponent does not use the hitting or blocking tactic.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The main aim of the blocking strategy, by the name, is to block your competitor’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your chips rapidly. As soon as you have created the blockage for the opponent’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can move your other pieces rapidly off the game board. You will need to also have a good strategy when to extract and move the chips that you used for the blockade. The game gets intriguing when your opponent uses the same blocking tactic.