The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your pieces around the Backgammon board and bear 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 of Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and good luck. How far you can move your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and just how you shift your chips are determined by your overall playing techniques. Players use a few strategies in the different parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The aim of the Running Game technique is to entice all your checkers into your inside board and get them off as quick as you could. This tactic concentrates on the speed of moving your chips with little or no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s pieces. The best time to use this technique is when you think you might be able to move your own pieces faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main goal of the blocking plan, by its name, is to block the opponent’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about moving your checkers quickly. Once you’ve created the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other chips swiftly from the game board. The player should also have a clear strategy when to extract and move the checkers that you employed for the blockade. The game gets interesting when your opponent uses the same blocking technique.