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The goal of a Backgammon match is to move your pieces around the game board and get those pieces off the board quicker than your competitor who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round in Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. How far you will be able to move your checkers is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your pieces are determined by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use different techniques in the different parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game tactic is to entice all your pieces into your home board and pull them off as quick as you can. This technique concentrates on the pace of moving your checkers with no time spent to hit or block your competitor’s chips. The ideal scenario to employ this tactic is when you believe you might be able to shift your own chips quicker than your opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Technique

The main aim of the blocking plan, by the title, is to stop your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, not fretting about moving your pieces rapidly. Once you’ve created the blockage for the opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other chips quickly from the board. You will need to also have an apparent plan when to extract and move the pieces that you used for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when the opposition utilizes the same blocking technique.