The objective of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the game board and get those pieces off the board faster than your opposing player who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a round in Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. How far you can move your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you move your pieces are decided on by your overall gambling plans. Players use different tactics in the different stages of a game based 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 home board and bear them off as quick as you could. This plan focuses on the pace of moving your pieces with absolutely no efforts to hit or stop your competitor’s chips. The ideal time to use this strategy is when you think you can move your own chips a lot faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent’s checkers; or 3) your opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary aim of the blocking strategy, by its name, is to stop your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your pieces rapidly. Once you’ve established the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other checkers rapidly off the board. The player should also have a clear plan when to extract and move the checkers that you employed for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your competitor utilizes the same blocking technique.