The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your pieces around the game board and bear them off the board quicker than your opposing player who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a game in Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. How far you can move your pieces is left to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and how you shift your pieces are determined by your overall playing techniques. Enthusiasts use different plans in the differing stages of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game tactic is to lure all your chips into your inside board and get them off as fast as you could. This technique focuses on the speed of advancing your checkers with no time spent to hit or block your opponent’s checkers. The ideal time to use this tactic is when you believe you can shift your own checkers quicker than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) your opponent does not use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main goal of the blocking plan, by the title, is to stop your competitor’s pieces, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your pieces rapidly. Once you’ve created the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other pieces swiftly off the board. The player really should also have an apparent plan when to extract and move the checkers that you used for blocking. The game becomes interesting when the opposition uses the same blocking technique.