The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the game board and get those pieces from the game board faster than your opponent who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a match of Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. Just how far you can shift your chips is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your checkers are decided on by your overall gambling techniques. Players use differing plans in the differing stages of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game technique is to entice all your chips into your inside board and bear them off as fast as you could. This strategy focuses on the pace of advancing your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s checkers. The best time to employ this tactic is when you think you can move your own pieces quicker than your opponent does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your pieces have past your opponent’s chips; or 3) your opponent does not use the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main aim of the blocking strategy, by the name, is to stop your competitor’s chips, temporarily, not fretting about shifting your pieces rapidly. Once you’ve established the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can shift your other pieces quickly from the board. The player really should also have an apparent strategy when to withdraw and move the checkers that you employed for blocking. The game becomes interesting when the opponent utilizes the same blocking tactic.