The goal of a Backgammon match is to move your chips around the Backgammon board and get them off the board faster than your opponent who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round of Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and luck. How far you will be able to move your chips is up to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you move your chips are determined by your overall playing strategies. Enthusiasts use differing plans in the differing parts of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game plan is to lure all your chips into your inner board and get them off as fast as you can. This plan concentrates on the pace of shifting your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or barricade your opponent’s pieces. The best scenario to use this tactic is when you think you might be able to move your own pieces faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your checkers have past your competitor’s checkers; or 3) your opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main goal of the blocking plan, by its title, is to block your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your pieces rapidly. As soon as you have created the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can shift your other checkers quickly off the board. The player should also have an apparent plan when to extract and shift the chips that you used for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when the opponent uses the same blocking strategy.