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BLOCKING

With the advancement of the game and its flourishing popularity the game of skill and luck, Backgammon is becoming more and more strategic; this means an admirable improvisation of your strategy, your intuition, and your power of reading the progress of the game. There are a huge amount of books and articles relating to various situations and how to combat. Still every game creates new situations and initiates new solutions. Once the game is over then the particular situation is analyzed for the best authentic solution and only then does it get added to the forum or books. However, the instantaneous consequence may be defeated if your mind is not alert enough.

The basic objective of the game is to bring all the checkers to your home board and bear off before your opponent does, whilst on the way round trying to hit and block the opponent’s checker, to create a hindrance for the opponent. The basic winning strategy depends upon three factors:

1) Running Game

2) Blocking Game and

3) Back Game. You need to use various combinations of these three techniques in order to succeed.

The strategy includes blocking the opponent from hitting your checkers and blocking the escape route of the opponent. To block the opponent’s escape route, you are to block the 24th row, one of the most strategically important rows of your home board. You must try to block your opponent’s checkers on your home board only. Experienced players advise to block the rows in combinations such as 6+1, 3+1, 4+2, 5+3, 6+5.

According to the glossary of mindzine, 'Points formed in front of an opponent's meant to hinder their progress around the board' is called a block. This is a very simple strategy: If you can place two checkers of your own, then the opponent cannot hit you. If you can form contiguous blocks of such points, it is called the blockade. The blockade is made on your home board to actually close the escape route of your opponent.

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