The aim of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the Backgammon board and get those pieces from the board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. Just how far you can move your checkers is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and the way you move your pieces are determined by your overall playing techniques. Players use a few strategies in the different parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The aim of the Running Game tactic is to lure all your pieces into your home board and pull them off as quickly as you could. This plan focuses on the pace of shifting your pieces with absolutely no time spent to hit or block your opponent’s pieces. The best time to use this tactic is when you believe you might be able to shift your own pieces faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Technique

The primary aim of the blocking tactic, by the name, is to block your opponent’s chips, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your pieces quickly. After you have established the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a couple of chips, you can shift your other checkers quickly off the board. The player will need to also have an apparent strategy when to extract and move the chips that you employed for the blockade. The game gets interesting when your opponent utilizes the same blocking tactic.