The aim of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the game board and get them from the game board faster than your opposing player who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a round of Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. How far you can shift your pieces is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and just how you shift your chips are determined by your overall gambling techniques. Enthusiasts use a number of plans in the differing stages of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your pieces into your home board and bear them off as quick as you can. This plan concentrates on the pace of shifting your pieces with little or no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s chips. The ideal scenario to employ this tactic is when you think you can shift your own checkers a lot faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the game board; 2) all your pieces have past your competitor’s checkers; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The primary aim of the blocking tactic, by the name, is to stop your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your pieces rapidly. Once you’ve established the barrier for your opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other pieces rapidly off the game board. The player will need to also have an apparent strategy when to withdraw and shift the pieces that you utilized for the blockade. The game gets intriguing when the opponent utilizes the same blocking tactic.