The aim of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the Backgammon board and bear them off the game board faster than your opponent who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a round in Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. Just how far you will be able to move your chips is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use a few techniques in the differing parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The aim of the Running Game technique is to lure all your checkers into your home board and bear them off as quickly as you can. This technique concentrates on the speed of moving your chips with absolutely no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s pieces. The ideal time to use this strategy is when you believe you might be able to move your own chips faster than your opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent’s pieces; or 3) your opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main goal of the blocking technique, by the name, is to stop the competitor’s pieces, temporarily, not fretting about moving your pieces quickly. Once you’ve established the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other chips quickly off the board. The player should also have a clear strategy when to extract and move the checkers that you used for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when the opponent uses the same blocking technique.