The goal of a Backgammon match is to move your checkers around the Backgammon board and get those pieces from the game board faster than your challenger who works harder to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round in Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. Just how far you can move your pieces is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and just how you shift your pieces are decided on by your overall playing plans. Players use differing tactics in the differing stages of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The goal of the Running Game tactic is to bring all your chips into your home board and pull them off as quick as you can. This strategy focuses on the pace of moving your chips with no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s pieces. The ideal time to employ this plan is when you think you can move your own chips quicker than your opponent does: when 1) you have less chips on the game board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) the opponent does not use the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main goal of the blocking plan, by the title, is to stop your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your chips quickly. After you have created the barrier for the opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other pieces rapidly off the game board. The player will need to also have a good strategy when to back off and shift the chips that you employed for the blockade. The game gets interesting when your opponent utilizes the same blocking tactic.