The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your pieces around the game board and bear them from the board faster than your challenger who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a round of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. How far you will be able to shift your checkers is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you shift your pieces are determined by your overall playing strategies. Enthusiasts use different techniques in the different stages of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The goal of the Running Game plan is to entice all your chips into your home board and pull them off as fast as you can. This technique concentrates on the speed of shifting your chips with little or no efforts to hit or barricade your opponent’s chips. The ideal scenario to use this tactic is when you think you might be able to shift your own pieces quicker than your opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary aim of the blocking plan, by the title, is to block the competitor’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your pieces quickly. After you have created the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other pieces swiftly from the game board. You will need to also have an apparent strategy when to withdraw and shift the chips that you used for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when the opposition uses the same blocking technique.