The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your chips around the Backgammon board and pull those pieces off the game board quicker than your opponent who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a game in Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. How far you can shift your pieces is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing tactics. Players use differing plans in the different parts of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game tactic is to entice all your chips into your home board and pull them off as quickly as you could. This strategy focuses on the speed of advancing your pieces with absolutely no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s checkers. The best scenario to employ this tactic is when you believe you can move your own pieces faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your checkers have past your opponent’s checkers; or 3) your opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary goal of the blocking technique, by its name, is to stop your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your pieces rapidly. Once you have established the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can shift your other chips rapidly from the board. The player will need to also have a clear plan when to withdraw and shift the checkers that you used for blocking. The game gets intriguing when the opposition utilizes the same blocking strategy.