The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your checkers around the game board and pull those pieces off the board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a round in Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. How far you can shift your chips is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and the way you shift your pieces are determined by your overall gambling strategies. Players use differing tactics in the different stages of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The goal of the Running Game tactic is to lure all your pieces into your inner board and pull them off as quickly as you can. This plan focuses on the speed of moving your chips with little or no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s pieces. The best scenario to employ this tactic is when you believe you can move your own chips quicker than your opposing player does: when 1) you have less pieces on the game board; 2) all your pieces have past your opponent’s pieces; or 3) your opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary aim of the blocking strategy, by its title, is to block your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your chips quickly. After you have created the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other checkers swiftly off the game board. You really should also have a clear plan when to extract and move the checkers that you employed for the blockade. The game gets intriguing when your opposition uses the same blocking strategy.