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The objective of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the game board and get them off the game board quicker than your opponent who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round of Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. How far you can move your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing strategies. Enthusiasts use a number of techniques in the different stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game plan is to entice all your checkers into your inside board and pull them off as fast as you could. This technique concentrates on the pace of shifting your checkers with little or no time spent to hit or barricade your opponent’s pieces. The best scenario to use this strategy is when you think you might be able to shift your own checkers quicker than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less chips on the game board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) the opponent does not use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Technique

The primary goal of the blocking strategy, by its name, is to block the opponent’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. As soon as you’ve created the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other pieces quickly off the game board. The player will need to also have a good strategy when to withdraw and shift the chips that you used for blocking. The game gets intriguing when the competitor utilizes the same blocking tactic.