The goal of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the Backgammon board and get them off the board faster than your opposing player who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a game in Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. Just how far you can move your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and the way you shift your pieces are determined by your overall gambling plans. Players use differing strategies in the different stages of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game technique is to lure all your pieces into your inside board and get them off as fast as you can. This plan focuses on the speed of shifting your pieces with no efforts to hit or stop your competitor’s checkers. The best time to use this technique is when you think you can move your own pieces faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your checkers have past your opponent’s checkers; or 3) your opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main aim of the blocking plan, by its title, is to block the opponent’s chips, temporarily, not fretting about moving your pieces rapidly. As soon as you’ve created the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can move your other checkers quickly from the board. You should also have a good plan when to withdraw and move the checkers that you employed for the blockade. The game becomes intriguing when the opposition uses the same blocking technique.