The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the Backgammon board and get them from the board quicker than your competitor who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a round in Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you will be able to move your checkers is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and just how you shift your chips are determined by your overall gambling techniques. Players use a few plans in the different stages of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game tactic is to bring all your chips into your inside board and pull them off as quickly as you could. This technique concentrates on the pace of shifting your pieces with little or no time spent to hit or stop your competitor’s chips. The ideal time to use this tactic is when you think you might be able to move your own checkers a lot faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; or 3) your opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Technique

The main aim of the blocking plan, by its name, is to block the competitor’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about moving your pieces quickly. After you have created the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a few pieces, you can shift your other checkers quickly from the board. The player will need to also have a clear strategy when to extract and shift the pieces that you employed for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when your opponent uses the same blocking technique.