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The goal of a Backgammon match is to shift your pieces around the Backgammon board and bear them off the board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a round of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. How far you will be able to shift your checkers is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and the way you move your checkers are determined by your overall playing techniques. Players use a few strategies in the different parts of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your chips into your home board and pull them off as quickly as you can. This tactic concentrates on the speed of moving your chips with little or no efforts to hit or stop your competitor’s pieces. The ideal time to employ this technique is when you believe you might be able to shift your own pieces a lot faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have less pieces on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent’s checkers; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Plan

The primary goal of the blocking technique, by its title, is to block your opponent’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about moving your pieces quickly. Once you have created the blockage for the opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can shift your other chips quickly from the board. You will need to also have a clear plan when to extract and move the pieces that you used for blocking. The game becomes interesting when the competitor uses the same blocking strategy.