The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the Backgammon board and get them from the game board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a game of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. Just how far you can move your checkers is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and the way you move your checkers are decided on by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use a number of tactics in the different stages of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The aim of the Running Game tactic is to entice all your checkers into your inside board and bear them off as quickly as you could. This technique concentrates on the pace of moving your chips with little or no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s chips. The best scenario to employ this plan is when you believe you might be able to shift your own pieces a lot faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) your opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main goal of the blocking strategy, by the name, is to block your opponent’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. As soon as you’ve established the blockade for your competitor’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other pieces quickly off the game board. You should also have a good strategy when to extract and move the checkers that you used for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your competitor uses the same blocking tactic.