The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the game board and pull them from the board quicker than your opponent who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match of Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and good luck. Just how far you can shift your chips is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you shift your pieces are decided on by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use a few tactics in the differing stages 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 pieces into your home board and pull them off as fast as you can. This technique focuses on the pace of shifting your chips with no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s pieces. The best scenario to use this plan is when you think you might be able to shift your own chips quicker than your opposition does: when 1) you have less pieces on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s checkers; or 3) the opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking tactic.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The primary aim of the blocking tactic, by the name, is to block your competitor’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about moving your chips rapidly. As soon as you’ve created the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can shift your other checkers rapidly from the board. The player will need to also have an apparent plan when to withdraw and move the chips that you utilized for the blockade. The game gets intriguing when the opposition uses the same blocking technique.