The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your chips around the game board and pull those pieces from the game board faster than your opponent who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match in Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you can move your chips is up to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you move your chips are decided on by your overall playing plans. Players use different strategies in the differing parts of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your checkers into your inner board and bear them off as quick as you can. This plan concentrates on the speed of moving your pieces with little or no time spent to hit or block your competitor’s pieces. The ideal scenario to use this tactic is when you believe you can move your own pieces quicker than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; 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 chips, temporarily, not worrying about moving your pieces rapidly. As soon as you’ve established the blockage for the competitor’s movement with a few pieces, you can move your other pieces quickly from the board. The player will need to also have an apparent strategy when to extract and shift the checkers that you used for the blockade. The game gets intriguing when the opposition uses the same blocking strategy.