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The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part One
December 14th, 2023 by Kaitlynn

The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces from the board faster than your opposing player who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match in Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and luck. How far you will be able to move your checkers is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing plans. Players use different 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 strategy is to bring all your checkers into your inside board and bear them off as quickly as you could. This plan focuses on the speed of advancing your pieces with absolutely no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s chips. The best time to employ this technique is when you think you might be able to move your own chips faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have less pieces on the game board; 2) all your checkers have past your competitor’s chips; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The primary aim of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to stop the opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your pieces quickly. Once you have created the barrier for the opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other pieces quickly from the board. The player will need to also have a clear plan when to extract and shift the pieces that you utilized for blocking. The game gets interesting when the competitor uses the same blocking strategy.


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