The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your chips around the Backgammon board and bear them off the board faster than your opponent who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a game in Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. Just how far you can shift your pieces is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and the way you move your chips are determined by your overall playing techniques. Players use a number of plans in the different stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your chips into your home board and bear them off as quick as you could. This strategy focuses on the pace of shifting your checkers with no efforts to hit or barricade your opponent’s chips. The ideal time to use this strategy is when you think you might be able to shift your own pieces quicker than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the game board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your competitor’s chips; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main goal of the blocking plan, by the title, is to block your opponent’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your pieces rapidly. As soon as you have established the barrier for the opponent’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can shift your other pieces rapidly from the game board. You should also have a clear strategy when to withdraw and shift the checkers that you employed for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your opponent uses the same blocking tactic.