The aim of a Backgammon game is to move your chips around the Backgammon board and get those pieces off the game board faster than your opponent who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a round in Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. How far you can shift your checkers is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and just how you move your checkers are decided on by your overall gambling plans. Players use different plans in the different parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game plan is to entice all your checkers into your home board and get them off as quick as you could. This tactic focuses on the speed of advancing your chips with little or no efforts to hit or barricade your opponent’s checkers. The best scenario to employ this tactic is when you think you might be able to shift your own chips faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your opponent’s chips; or 3) your opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main aim of the blocking plan, by the name, is to stop the opponent’s checkers, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your chips quickly. As soon as you’ve established the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other pieces swiftly off the board. You should also have an apparent strategy when to extract and shift the pieces that you used for blocking. The game gets intriguing when the competitor utilizes the same blocking technique.