The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the game board and pull them from the board quicker than your challenger who works just as hard to attempt 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 rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your chips are decided on by your overall gambling strategies. Players use a number of strategies in the differing stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your checkers into your inside board and bear them off as quick as you can. This plan focuses on the speed of shifting your checkers with absolutely no time spent to hit or stop your opponent’s chips. The ideal scenario to employ this plan is when you think you might be able to shift your own checkers quicker than the opponent does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your checkers have past your opponent’s pieces; or 3) your opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Technique

The primary aim of the blocking strategy, by its name, is to stop the competitor’s pieces, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. Once you’ve created the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other pieces rapidly off the game board. You will need to also have an apparent strategy when to extract and shift the chips that you employed for blocking. The game becomes interesting when the opposition utilizes the same blocking strategy.