The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your pieces around the game board and bear them off the board quicker than your challenger who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match in Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and fortune. How far you will be able to move your checkers is left to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and the way you move your pieces are determined by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use a few tactics in the differing stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your chips into your inner board and get them off as quick as you can. This tactic focuses on the pace of shifting your pieces with no time spent to hit or block your competitor’s checkers. The ideal scenario to employ this tactic is when you think you might be able to shift your own checkers quicker than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s chips; or 3) the opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main goal of the blocking technique, by the title, is to stop your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about moving your chips quickly. Once you’ve established the blockage for your opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other pieces quickly from the game board. The player should also have an apparent strategy when to extract and shift the checkers that you employed for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when your opponent uses the same blocking technique.