The goal of a Backgammon match is to shift your checkers around the Backgammon board and pull those pieces off the board quicker than your competitor who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a round of Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. Just how far you can shift your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you move your chips are determined by your overall gambling strategies. Enthusiasts use a number of tactics in the different parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game tactic is to entice all your checkers into your home board and pull them off as quick as you can. This tactic focuses on the pace of moving your chips with no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s pieces. The best time to employ this tactic is when you believe you might be able to shift your own pieces faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; or 3) your opponent does not use the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Plan

The primary aim of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to block the opponent’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your pieces rapidly. Once you have created the blockage for the competitor’s movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other chips quickly off the game board. The player will need to also have a good strategy when to extract and move the checkers that you employed for the blockade. The game becomes intriguing when your opposition utilizes the same blocking technique.