The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the game board and bear them from the game board quicker than your challenger who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match of Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. How far you can shift your checkers is left to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and how you move your chips are decided on by your overall gambling tactics. Enthusiasts use a few tactics in the differing parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your pieces into your home board and bear them off as fast as you could. This tactic concentrates on the pace of advancing your chips with little or no efforts to hit or barricade your opponent’s pieces. The best time to use this plan is when you think you might be able to move your own chips a lot faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your pieces have past your opponent’s pieces; or 3) your opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary goal of the blocking strategy, by the title, is to stop the opponent’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your checkers quickly. After you’ve created the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can shift your other checkers quickly off the board. You will need to also have a clear strategy when to back off and move the chips that you utilized for the blockade. The game gets interesting when your opposition uses the same blocking technique.