The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your pieces around the game board and get them from the board quicker than your competitor who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a game of Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and luck. Just how far you can shift your chips is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you move your checkers are determined by your overall gambling tactics. Players use a few tactics in the different stages of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game tactic is to entice all your pieces into your home board and pull them off as fast as you could. This strategy concentrates on the pace of advancing your chips with little or no time spent to hit or barricade your competitor’s chips. The ideal time to employ this strategy is when you believe you might be able to shift your own checkers faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s chips; or 3) your opponent does not use the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Plan

The primary aim of the blocking tactic, by the name, is to block the opponent’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your pieces rapidly. As soon as you’ve established the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a few pieces, you can move your other pieces rapidly off the board. The player should also have a good plan when to back off and move the pieces that you used for the blockade. The game gets intriguing when the competitor uses the same blocking technique.