The objective of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the Backgammon board and bear them off the game board quicker than your opponent who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match of Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. How far you can move your chips is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you move your checkers are determined by your overall gambling strategies. Enthusiasts use differing techniques in the differing stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The aim of the Running Game technique is to entice all your pieces into your home board and pull them off as fast as you can. This tactic focuses on the speed of advancing your pieces with no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s pieces. The ideal scenario to employ this plan is when you think you can move your own pieces a lot faster than your opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Technique

The primary aim of the blocking strategy, by the name, is to stop the opponent’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. After you’ve established the blockade for your competitor’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other checkers quickly off the board. The player will need to also have an apparent plan when to extract and move the chips that you utilized for blocking. The game becomes interesting when the opponent uses the same blocking strategy.