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The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your pieces around the Backgammon board and bear them off the board quicker than your opposing player who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a match of Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. How far you will be able to shift your chips is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your chips are determined by your overall playing strategies. Players use a number of plans in the differing parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game tactic is to entice all your checkers into your inner board and get them off as fast as you could. This tactic concentrates on the pace of moving your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s chips. The ideal scenario to employ this tactic is when you believe you can move your own checkers faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main aim of the blocking plan, by the title, is to block your competitor’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your pieces quickly. Once you’ve created the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can shift your other checkers swiftly off the board. The player will need to also have an apparent plan when to back off and shift the chips that you employed for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when the competitor utilizes the same blocking strategy.