The aim of a Backgammon match is to move your chips around the game board and get them from the board faster than your opponent who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a match in Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. Just how far you will be able to move your chips is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you move your checkers are decided on by your overall playing techniques. Players use different strategies in the different parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game technique is to entice all your checkers into your inner board and get them off as quick as you can. This strategy concentrates on the pace of moving your checkers with absolutely no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s pieces. The best scenario to use this strategy is when you think you can shift your own checkers a lot faster than your opposing player does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The primary goal of the blocking strategy, by the title, is to stop your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, not fretting about shifting your chips rapidly. After you’ve established the barrier for the competitor’s movement with a few pieces, you can move your other checkers quickly from the board. You should also have a good plan when to withdraw and shift the chips that you utilized for blocking. The game gets interesting when the opposition uses the same blocking technique.