The goal of a Backgammon match is to move your checkers around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces off the board faster than your competitor who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match of Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. How far you will be able to move your checkers is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you move your chips are determined by your overall playing techniques. Enthusiasts use different plans in the different stages of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game plan is to entice all your chips into your inner board and bear them off as fast as you could. This plan focuses on the speed of moving your chips with no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s pieces. The ideal time to use this plan is when you think you can shift your own chips a lot faster than your opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the game board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main goal of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to block your competitor’s chips, temporarily, not fretting about moving your pieces quickly. Once you’ve created the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other chips rapidly off the game board. You should also have a clear plan when to back off and move the checkers that you utilized for blocking. The game gets interesting when your competitor uses the same blocking strategy.