The objective of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the game board and get those pieces off the game board faster than your challenger who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round of Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you can shift your checkers is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and how you shift your chips are decided on by your overall playing techniques. Players use a number of plans in the different stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The goal of the Running Game tactic is to entice all your pieces into your home board and pull them off as quickly as you can. This plan focuses on the speed of shifting your checkers with absolutely no time spent to hit or barricade your competitor’s checkers. The ideal scenario to employ this technique is when you believe you can shift your own chips a lot faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s chips; or 3) your opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary goal of the blocking technique, by its title, is to stop the opponent’s chips, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your chips rapidly. As soon as you have established the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other checkers quickly from the board. The player will need to also have an apparent strategy when to withdraw and shift the checkers that you utilized for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your competitor utilizes the same blocking strategy.