The aim of a Backgammon match is to move your checkers around the Backgammon board and pull them off 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 match in Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. How far you will be able to shift your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you shift your pieces are decided on by your overall playing tactics. Players use a number of tactics in the differing stages of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Plan
The aim of the Running Game technique is to lure all your pieces into your home board and pull them off as quickly as you can. This strategy focuses on the speed of moving your chips with absolutely no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s checkers. The best scenario to use this strategy is when you think you can move your own chips quicker than your opposition does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your competitor’s chips; or 3) the opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking plan.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The main goal of the blocking technique, by the name, is to stop the competitor’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your pieces quickly. Once you’ve created the blockage for the opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can shift your other checkers swiftly off the game board. You should also have a good strategy when to extract and move the pieces that you employed for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when the opposition uses the same blocking strategy.