The aim of a Backgammon game is to move your chips around the Backgammon board and pull those pieces off the game board faster than your opposing player who works harder to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a game in Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and luck. How far you can shift your pieces is left to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and how you move your pieces are decided on by your overall playing strategies. Players use a number of techniques in the differing parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The aim of the Running Game technique is to lure all your chips into your home board and bear them off as quickly as you could. This strategy focuses on the pace of advancing your chips with no time spent to hit or block your competitor’s pieces. The best scenario to employ this technique is when you think you can move your own checkers quicker than your opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s pieces; or 3) your opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main goal of the blocking plan, by its title, is to block your competitor’s pieces, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your pieces quickly. Once you’ve created the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a few chips, you can shift your other chips rapidly from the board. You will need to also have a good plan when to extract and shift the pieces that you utilized for blocking. The game gets interesting when your opposition utilizes the same blocking strategy.