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The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the game board and bear those pieces from the game board faster than your competitor who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a match of Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you can move your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your chips are decided on by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use a number of strategies in the different stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your chips into your inside board and bear them off as fast as you could. This plan focuses on the speed of advancing your chips with absolutely no time spent to hit or stop your competitor’s pieces. The best scenario to use this technique is when you think you can shift your own pieces faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your checkers have past your competitor’s checkers; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main goal of the blocking strategy, by its title, is to stop the opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. Once you have created the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a few chips, you can shift your other chips rapidly from the board. You should also have an apparent plan when to extract and shift the chips that you utilized for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when the opposition uses the same blocking technique.