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The objective of a Backgammon match is to shift your checkers around the game board and get those pieces off the game board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a game of Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you will be able to shift your checkers is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and just how you shift your pieces are decided on by your overall playing tactics. Players use a number of techniques in the differing parts of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game technique is to lure all your checkers into your home board and get them off as quickly as you can. This tactic focuses on the pace of advancing your chips with little or no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s pieces. The best time to use this strategy is when you believe you can shift your own pieces a lot faster than your opposing player does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor’s chips; or 3) your opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary aim of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to stop your opponent’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your checkers rapidly. Once you have created the blockade for your competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other chips rapidly off the game board. The player will need to also have an apparent plan when to withdraw and shift the pieces that you used for blocking. The game gets intriguing when the opposition utilizes the same blocking technique.