The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the Backgammon board and pull them from the board faster than your competitor who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. How far you will be able to move your chips is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you move your chips are determined by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use different plans in the differing stages of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game plan is to entice all your chips into your home board and pull them off as quick as you can. This strategy focuses on the pace of shifting your chips with absolutely no time spent to hit or stop your opponent’s chips. The best scenario to use this technique is when you believe you might be able to shift your own checkers quicker than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the game board; 2) all your pieces have past your competitor’s checkers; or 3) the opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main goal of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to stop the competitor’s chips, temporarily, not fretting about moving your chips quickly. After you’ve established the barrier for your opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other checkers rapidly from the board. The player will need to also have a good strategy when to extract and move the pieces that you utilized for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your opponent utilizes the same blocking tactic.