The aim of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the game board and pull them off the game board faster than your opposing player who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a match of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. Just how far you will be able to shift your chips is up to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you move your pieces are decided on by your overall playing plans. Players use differing tactics in the differing parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The aim of the Running Game technique is to entice all your pieces into your home board and bear them off as fast as you could. This tactic concentrates on the speed of shifting your chips with no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s checkers. The ideal scenario to use this strategy is when you believe you can shift your own checkers faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s chips; or 3) the opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Technique

The main goal of the blocking tactic, by its title, is to stop your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your pieces rapidly. Once you have established the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other chips rapidly off the game board. You will need to also have an apparent strategy when to withdraw and move the chips that you employed for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when the opponent uses the same blocking tactic.