The aim of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the game board and bear them from the game board faster than your competitor who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you can move your chips is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and how you shift your chips are determined by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use differing strategies in the differing parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game plan is to entice all your chips into your inner board and get them off as fast as you could. This technique focuses on the speed of moving your pieces with no efforts to hit or stop your competitor’s pieces. The ideal time to use this plan is when you think you can move your own pieces quicker than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s chips; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Technique

The main aim of the blocking strategy, by its title, is to stop the competitor’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your checkers rapidly. Once you’ve created the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can shift your other chips quickly from the board. You should also have a good strategy when to back off and shift the chips that you employed for blocking. The game gets interesting when your opposition utilizes the same blocking tactic.