The objective of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the game board and get those pieces off the board faster than your challenger who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a match of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. Just how far you will be able to move your pieces is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and how you shift your chips are decided on by your overall gambling tactics. Enthusiasts use a few tactics in the different parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The goal of the Running Game plan is to bring all your chips into your home board and pull them off as quick as you can. This plan concentrates on the speed of advancing your pieces with little or no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s pieces. The ideal scenario to use this strategy is when you think you can shift your own chips faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the board; 2) all your checkers have past your competitor’s checkers; or 3) the opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary goal of the blocking plan, by the title, is to block your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your pieces quickly. As soon as you’ve established the blockage for the opponent’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can shift your other checkers rapidly off the board. You will need to also have an apparent plan when to withdraw and shift the chips that you used for blocking. The game gets interesting when the opposition utilizes the same blocking strategy.