The goal of a Backgammon match is to shift your pieces around the Backgammon board and get them off the board faster than your competitor who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a match in Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. Just how far you can move your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your chips are decided on by your overall playing techniques. Enthusiasts use a number of strategies in the different parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The goal of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your checkers into your inner board and pull them off as quick as you could. This strategy concentrates on the speed of moving your checkers with no time spent to hit or block your opponent’s pieces. The ideal scenario to use this plan is when you believe you might be able to move your own checkers faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent’s chips; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Plan
The main aim of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to stop your opponent’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about moving your checkers rapidly. As soon as you’ve established the blockage for the competitor’s movement with a few pieces, you can shift your other chips quickly from the game board. You really should also have a clear plan when to withdraw and move the chips that you used for blocking. The game gets intriguing when your opponent uses the same blocking strategy.