The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the game board and bear those pieces off the board faster than your competitor who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a game of Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. Just how far you can shift your pieces is up to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you shift your pieces are determined by your overall playing strategies. Enthusiasts use differing tactics in the different parts of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your chips into your home board and bear them off as quick as you could. This strategy focuses on the speed of shifting your chips with little or no time spent to hit or stop your opponent’s pieces. The ideal scenario to employ this technique is when you think you might be able to shift your own chips a lot faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your opponent’s chips; or 3) the opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main goal of the blocking technique, by the name, is to stop the competitor’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your chips rapidly. After you have established the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can shift your other chips quickly off the game board. The player should also have a good plan when to back off and move the checkers that you employed for the blockade. The game gets intriguing when the opponent uses the same blocking technique.