The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the Backgammon board and get them from the game board faster than your opponent who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round in Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and fortune. Just how far you can shift your chips is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and the way you move your checkers are decided on by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use a few strategies in the differing stages of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Strategy
The goal of the Running Game tactic is to entice all your checkers into your inside board and bear them off as quick as you could. This strategy concentrates on the speed of moving your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s chips. The best time to employ this technique is when you think you can move your own checkers a lot 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) the opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The main aim of the blocking tactic, by the name, is to block the competitor’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your chips rapidly. Once you’ve created the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other pieces rapidly off the board. The player should also have a clear strategy when to back off and shift the checkers that you used for blocking. The game gets intriguing when the competitor utilizes the same blocking tactic.