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The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 1
November 6th, 2021 by Claudia

The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your pieces around the game board and bear those pieces off the board faster than your challenger who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a game in Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and luck. Just how far you will be able to shift your checkers is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you move your checkers are determined by your overall gambling techniques. Enthusiasts use a few tactics in the different stages of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game plan is to entice all your chips into your home board and bear them off as fast as you can. This plan focuses on the speed of moving your checkers with no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s chips. The best time to use this strategy is when you believe you might be able to shift your own chips faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor’s chips; or 3) your opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Technique

The primary goal of the blocking tactic, by the name, is to block your competitor’s checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. As soon as you’ve established the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other checkers quickly from the game board. The player will need to also have a clear strategy when to extract and move the chips that you utilized for blocking. The game gets interesting when your competitor utilizes the same blocking strategy.


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