The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your pieces around the game board and pull those pieces off the game board faster than your opposing player who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and good luck. How far you can shift your checkers is up to the numbers from tossing the dice, and just how you shift your chips are determined by your overall gambling techniques. Players use a few techniques in the differing parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game technique is to lure all your checkers into your home board and get them off as fast as you can. This technique concentrates on the pace of advancing your checkers with no efforts to hit or stop your competitor’s chips. The best scenario to use this plan is when you think you can shift your own checkers quicker than the opposition does: when 1) you have less pieces on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent’s chips; or 3) your opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main aim of the blocking technique, by its name, is to stop the competitor’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about moving your pieces rapidly. After you have created the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other checkers quickly off the board. You will need to also have a good strategy when to back off and shift the pieces that you used for blocking. The game gets intriguing when your opposition utilizes the same blocking strategy.