The objective of a Backgammon match is to shift your pieces around the game board and bear them off the board faster than your competitor who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a round of Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. How far you will be able to shift your chips is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and just how you shift your checkers are decided on by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use a number of techniques in the different stages of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The aim of the Running Game tactic is to lure all your pieces into your home board and get them off as quickly as you can. This strategy concentrates on the pace of moving your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s pieces. The best time to employ this strategy is when you believe you can shift your own checkers quicker than your opposition does: when 1) you have less pieces on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary goal of the blocking technique, by the title, is to block your competitor’s chips, temporarily, not fretting about moving your chips rapidly. Once you’ve established the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other chips rapidly from the board. The player will need to also have a good strategy when to back off and shift the checkers that you employed for the blockade. The game gets intriguing when the opposition uses the same blocking technique.