The objective of a Backgammon game is to shift your chips around the game board and bear those pieces off the game board faster than your opposing player who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. How far you can move your chips is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you move your chips are decided on by your overall playing strategies. Players use a number of techniques in the different parts of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Plan
The goal of the Running Game plan is to entice all your checkers into your home board and pull them off as quickly as you can. This plan focuses on the pace of moving your pieces with absolutely no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s chips. The best time to employ this plan is when you believe you can shift your own chips faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the game board; 2) all your pieces have past your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opponent does not use the hitting or blocking tactic.
The Blocking Game Plan
The primary goal of the blocking technique, by its name, is to block the competitor’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your chips rapidly. After you’ve established the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a few pieces, you can move your other checkers swiftly off the board. The player will need to also have an apparent strategy when to back off and move the checkers that you utilized for the blockade. The game becomes intriguing when the opposition uses the same blocking technique.