The goal of a Backgammon match is to move your checkers around the game board and get those pieces from the game board quicker than your opponent who works harder to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. Just how far you can move your checkers is left to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and just how you shift your checkers are determined by your overall gambling tactics. Enthusiasts use different plans in the different parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The aim of the Running Game technique is to lure all your checkers into your inside board and pull them off as quick as you could. This technique focuses on the speed of advancing your checkers with no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s checkers. The best scenario to employ this strategy is when you think you might be able to shift your own checkers faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have less pieces 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 aim of the blocking technique, by its title, is to stop the opponent’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. As soon as you’ve created the barrier for the opponent’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can shift your other checkers quickly off the board. The player should also have a good strategy when to back off and move the chips that you utilized for blocking. The game becomes interesting when the opponent uses the same blocking technique.