The goal of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the game board and pull those pieces off the board faster than your opposing player who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a round of Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and luck. Just how far you can move your checkers is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and the way you shift your chips are determined by your overall playing plans. Players use different tactics in the differing parts of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game tactic is to bring all your checkers into your inner board and pull them off as fast as you can. This strategy concentrates on the pace of advancing your pieces with no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s checkers. The ideal time to use this technique is when you think you can move your own chips faster than your opposing player does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your opponent’s checkers; or 3) your opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The primary aim of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to stop your opponent’s chips, temporarily, not fretting about shifting your chips quickly. After you’ve created the barrier for your opponent’s movement with a few pieces, you can shift your other chips swiftly off the game board. You should also have a good strategy when to withdraw and move the checkers that you used for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when the opposition uses the same blocking strategy.