Betting on backgammon might be fun, especially if you are aware of how to succeed by playing properly. But occasionally a tip or two can assist you even more and make you a more accomplished player.
One of the better strategies to win is to block your opposition in. It will keep them from advancing their checkers from your home board. This has to be done at the start of the match to keep your adversaries two pieces in your home boardthere. So you need to shift your pieces to points seven, 5, and four as swiftly as possible and even 2 and 3 if you can. Maintain your point of six with the 6 checkers where it is. This will ensure that your opposition can not will not be able to leave your home board and help your odds of blocking them in to come out on top.
By locking your opponent in, they will be looking for double 6’s as soon as all other options have been completed to get those two checkers away from your home board. If doubles aren’t tossed, your opponent will be required to shift 1 checker at a time, as long as they toss a six or greater, and leave one checker vulnerable behind. Of course while veering off your own pieces, make sure you don’t leave one by itself where your opposition can send you off the board to make your way through their side.
When in doubt, hit. This can help you win mainly because once your challenger is hit, that checker is the checker they must move before they can do anything else in the game. So if you hit them several times, they’ll have to return numerous pieces back to the board and get past your checkers to succeed. Make sure you do not hit where it’ll cause you to be open to getting hit yourself. Except of course when will be beneficial to you, as in early on in the game when your opposition will not have you locked in.
Hitting when you have a lock started can also be great because as soon as you get a few spots blocked, your opposition will have a harder time moving their pieces from your home board and beating you. It is even possible to hit them numerous times and get your block setup. That way you can prevent them from re-entering the game and even being offered an opportunity at crushing you.
These 2 hints aren’t the only way to succeed, but they’re great ways for amateurs to grow into more skillfull enthusiasts. So when you master these, succeeding most of the time won’t seem to be such a complex thing to do.