The aim of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the game board and pull them from the board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match in Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. How far you can shift your pieces is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and just how you move your checkers are determined by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use a few techniques in the differing parts of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The aim of the Running Game tactic is to entice all your pieces into your inner board and bear them off as fast as you can. This plan concentrates on the pace of shifting your checkers with little or no time spent to hit or block your opponent’s pieces. The ideal time to employ this strategy is when you believe you might be able to shift your own pieces faster than your opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) your opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Technique

The primary aim of the blocking tactic, by its title, is to block your competitor’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your pieces rapidly. As soon as you’ve created the blockage for your opponent’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can shift your other pieces swiftly from the game board. The player should also have a good plan when to back off and move the checkers that you employed for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when your opposition uses the same blocking strategy.