The aim of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the game board and pull those pieces off the game board faster than your competitor who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match in Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. Just how far you can move your pieces is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you shift your chips are determined by your overall playing techniques. Enthusiasts use a number of strategies in the differing stages 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 chips into your inside board and get them off as fast as you can. This technique concentrates on the speed of advancing your checkers with absolutely no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s checkers. The ideal scenario to employ this plan is when you think you might be able to shift your own chips a lot faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s chips; or 3) the opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main aim of the blocking strategy, by the name, is to stop your opponent’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about moving your pieces rapidly. As soon as you have established the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can shift your other checkers swiftly off the board. You should also have a good strategy when to withdraw and shift the chips that you employed for the blockade. The game becomes intriguing when the opponent utilizes the same blocking tactic.