The objective of a Backgammon match is to move your chips around the game board and bear them from the game board quicker than your challenger who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a game of Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. Just how far you can shift your chips is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you move your pieces are determined by your overall playing plans. Players use different tactics in the differing parts of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The aim of the Running Game technique is to bring all your checkers into your home board and bear them off as quick as you could. This plan concentrates on the pace of shifting your pieces with absolutely no time spent to hit or block your opponent’s checkers. The ideal scenario to employ this technique is when you think you can move your own chips faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less chips on the game board; 2) all your pieces have past your opponent’s checkers; or 3) your opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The main aim of the blocking strategy, by its name, is to block your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your chips quickly. As soon as you have created the blockage for the competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can shift your other pieces quickly off the board. You will need to also have a good strategy when to withdraw and move the pieces that you used for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your opponent uses the same blocking strategy.