The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the Backgammon board and get them off the board faster than your opposing player who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a game in Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. How far you can move your chips is left to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and how you shift your checkers are decided on by your overall playing techniques. Players use differing plans in the differing parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The aim of the Running Game technique is to bring all your chips into your inner board and pull them off as quickly as you can. This plan focuses on the pace of shifting your checkers with absolutely no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s checkers. The best scenario to use this technique is when you believe you might be able to move your own checkers faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your opponent’s chips; or 3) the opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The primary goal of the blocking strategy, by its title, is to block the competitor’s chips, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your pieces quickly. Once you have created the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can move your other checkers quickly off the game board. You will need to also have an apparent plan when to withdraw and shift the chips that you utilized for blocking. The game gets intriguing when the opponent uses the same blocking technique.