The objective of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the game board and pull those pieces from the board faster than your opposing player who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match in Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. Just how far you will be able to move your checkers is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and how you move your checkers are decided on by your overall gambling strategies. Enthusiasts use differing tactics in the different stages of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

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

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main goal of the blocking technique, by the title, is to block your competitor’s checkers, temporarily, not fretting about shifting your chips quickly. After you’ve created the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a few pieces, you can shift your other checkers swiftly from the game board. The player will need to also have a clear strategy when to extract and move the chips that you utilized for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when the opposition uses the same blocking technique.