The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the game 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 opposite direction. Succeeding in a round of Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you can shift your chips is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and just how you move your checkers are determined by your overall gambling techniques. Enthusiasts use a few plans in the differing stages of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The aim of the Running Game technique is to bring all your checkers into your inside board and bear them off as quickly as you could. This technique concentrates on the pace of advancing your checkers with absolutely no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s pieces. The best scenario to use this strategy is when you think you might be able to move your own chips quicker than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your competitor’s chips; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Technique

The main aim of the blocking plan, by the title, is to block the competitor’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about moving your pieces quickly. As soon as you’ve created the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other pieces quickly off the board. The player should also have an apparent strategy when to back off and shift the pieces that you utilized for blocking. The game gets interesting when the opposition utilizes the same blocking strategy.