The objective of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the game board and pull them off the board quicker than your challenger who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a round of Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. How far you will be able to move your chips is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you move your checkers are decided on by your overall playing strategies. Enthusiasts use a few techniques in the differing parts of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The goal of the Running Game plan is to bring all your checkers into your inside board and bear them off as quickly as you can. This tactic focuses on the pace of shifting your checkers with absolutely no time spent to hit or barricade your opponent’s pieces. The best scenario to employ this tactic is when you believe you might be able to move your own pieces a lot faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; or 3) the opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The primary goal of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to block your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your checkers rapidly. Once you’ve created the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other pieces quickly off the game board. The player should also have a clear plan when to extract and shift the checkers that you utilized for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when the opposition utilizes the same blocking strategy.