The goal of a Backgammon match is to shift your pieces around the game board and get them off the game board faster than your challenger who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match in Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and luck. How far you can shift your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and just how you shift your pieces are decided on by your overall playing plans. Players use a few tactics in the different stages of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The goal of the Running Game technique is to bring all your chips into your inner board and bear them off as quick as you could. This tactic focuses on the pace of moving your chips with absolutely no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s checkers. The best scenario to employ this tactic is when you believe you might be able to shift your own checkers quicker than your opposition does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your competitor’s chips; or 3) your opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Technique

The main aim of the blocking tactic, by the title, is to stop the competitor’s chips, temporarily, not fretting about moving your checkers quickly. As soon as you have established the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other checkers rapidly off the game board. The player should also have a good plan when to back off and shift the chips that you used for the blockade. The game becomes intriguing when your opponent uses the same blocking tactic.