The objective of a Backgammon match is to move your checkers around the game board and get them from the game board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. Just how far you can move your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your pieces are determined by your overall gambling plans. Players use a number of plans in the different stages of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your chips into your home board and pull them off as quickly as you could. This tactic concentrates on the pace of advancing your chips with no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s checkers. The ideal time to employ this plan is when you believe you might be able to shift your own pieces faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your pieces have past your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Technique

The primary aim of the blocking tactic, by the name, is to block the competitor’s checkers, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your pieces rapidly. Once you have created the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other pieces quickly off the board. You should also have a good strategy when to extract and shift the pieces that you used for the blockade. The game gets interesting when your opposition utilizes the same blocking technique.