The aim of a Backgammon match is to move your pieces around the game board and get them off the game board faster than your opposing player who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match of Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. How far you can move your checkers is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and the way you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing techniques. Enthusiasts use a number of tactics in the different parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The aim of the Running Game plan is to lure all your chips into your inner board and bear them off as fast as you can. This strategy focuses on the pace of advancing your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s chips. The best time to employ this technique is when you think you might be able to shift your own checkers quicker than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your competitor’s chips; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Technique

The primary aim of the blocking strategy, by the name, is to stop your competitor’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your chips quickly. After you have established the barrier for the competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other chips rapidly off the board. You should also have a clear strategy when to extract and move the chips that you utilized for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when your competitor uses the same blocking strategy.