The aim of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the Backgammon board and get them from the game board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match in Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. How far you can shift your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you move your pieces are determined by your overall playing techniques. Players use different strategies in the different stages of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your chips into your home board and bear them off as fast as you can. This strategy concentrates on the pace of shifting your pieces with little or no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s chips. The best time to use this tactic is when you believe you can shift your own pieces faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main aim of the blocking technique, by its name, is to block the competitor’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your checkers rapidly. As soon as you have created the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other checkers swiftly off the game board. The player will need to also have a good plan when to extract and move the chips that you used for blocking. The game gets intriguing when the competitor utilizes the same blocking tactic.