The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your checkers around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces from the board quicker than your opposing player who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and good luck. How far you will be able to move your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and just how you move your chips are determined by your overall playing strategies. Players use different tactics in the differing parts of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your pieces into your home board and pull them off as quickly as you can. This tactic concentrates on the pace of advancing your checkers with no time spent to hit or block your opponent’s checkers. The ideal scenario to employ this tactic is when you believe you might be able to shift your own chips quicker than your opposition does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) your opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main goal of the blocking technique, by the title, is to block your competitor’s checkers, 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 chips, you can shift your other checkers rapidly off the board. You should also have an apparent plan when to back off and move the chips that you employed for blocking. The game gets intriguing when the opponent uses the same blocking tactic.