The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your pieces around the game board and pull those pieces off the board quicker than your opposing player who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a game in Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. Just how far you will be able to shift your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and the way you move your checkers are determined by your overall playing techniques. Players use a number of strategies in the different parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Strategy
The aim of the Running Game tactic is to lure all your chips into your home board and pull them off as fast as you can. This technique focuses on the speed of shifting your chips with absolutely no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s checkers. The ideal scenario to employ this technique is when you think you might be able to shift your own checkers quicker than your opponent does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Technique
The primary aim of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to stop your competitor’s chips, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your chips rapidly. Once you’ve created the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other checkers swiftly off the board. You should also have a clear strategy when to back off and shift the pieces that you used for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when the opposition utilizes the same blocking tactic.
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