The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your checkers around the Backgammon board and pull those pieces off the game board faster than your opposing player who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a game in Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. Just how far you can move your chips is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and how you move your chips are decided on by your overall playing techniques. Players use different strategies in the different parts of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your chips into your inner board and pull them off as quickly as you could. This strategy focuses on the speed of shifting your chips with no time spent to hit or stop your opponent’s pieces. The ideal scenario to use this strategy is when you think you can shift your own pieces faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) the opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Plan

The primary goal of the blocking tactic, by the name, is to block your opponent’s chips, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your checkers rapidly. As soon as you’ve established the barrier for the competitor’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other pieces quickly from the game board. You should also have a good strategy when to extract and shift the checkers that you used for blocking. The game gets intriguing when your competitor utilizes the same blocking tactic.