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The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the Backgammon board and pull those pieces off the board faster than your opponent who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a game in Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you can shift your chips is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing strategies. Players use a number of plans in the different parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The aim of the Running Game tactic is to lure all your checkers into your inner board and pull them off as quickly as you could. This tactic focuses on the speed of advancing your pieces with little or no time spent to hit or barricade your competitor’s checkers. The ideal time to use this strategy is when you believe you can move your own checkers quicker than the opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the game board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your opponent’s chips; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main aim of the blocking technique, by its name, is to stop your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your checkers rapidly. As soon as you have created the blockage for the opponent’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can shift your other checkers quickly off the board. The player should also have an apparent strategy when to extract and move the checkers that you utilized for blocking. The game gets intriguing when the opposition utilizes the same blocking technique.