The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your pieces around the game board and get those pieces from the board faster than your competitor who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you will be able to shift your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing techniques. Enthusiasts use a number of plans in the differing stages of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game tactic is to lure all your chips into your home board and pull them off as quickly as you can. This tactic focuses on the speed of moving your chips with no time spent to hit or block your opponent’s chips. The ideal time to use this tactic is when you believe you can shift your own pieces faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Technique

The primary aim of the blocking plan, by the title, is to block the competitor’s checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your chips quickly. As soon as you’ve established the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other chips rapidly off the game board. You should also have a good plan when to extract and shift the checkers that you employed for blocking. The game gets intriguing when your competitor uses the same blocking strategy.