The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your chips around the Backgammon board and bear them from the board quicker than your competitor who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a game of Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. How far you will be able to shift your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you move your chips are determined by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use different tactics in the differing parts of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game tactic is to lure all your chips into your home board and bear them off as fast as you could. This tactic focuses on the speed of moving your chips with absolutely no efforts to hit or barricade your opponent’s pieces. The best time to use this technique is when you think you can move your own checkers a lot faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the game board; 2) all your pieces have past your opponent’s pieces; or 3) your opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Technique

The main goal of the blocking plan, by the title, is to stop the opponent’s checkers, temporarily, not fretting about shifting your pieces rapidly. Once you’ve established the barrier for the opponent’s movement with a few pieces, you can shift your other pieces rapidly from the game board. You will need to also have a clear strategy when to back off and shift the pieces that you used for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when the competitor uses the same blocking tactic.