The aim of a Backgammon match is to move your chips around the game board and pull those pieces from the board quicker than your opponent who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round in Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. 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 chips are decided on by your overall gambling plans. Enthusiasts use differing techniques in the differing stages of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The aim of the Running Game tactic is to bring all your chips into your inside board and bear them off as fast as you could. This plan focuses on the speed of shifting your chips with no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s checkers. The ideal scenario to employ this tactic is when you believe you can shift your own chips quicker than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor’s chips; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Technique

The main goal of the blocking plan, by the name, is to block the competitor’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your pieces rapidly. Once you have established the barrier for the opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can shift your other checkers swiftly from the board. You will need to also have a good plan when to withdraw and shift the pieces that you employed for blocking. The game becomes interesting when the competitor utilizes the same blocking strategy.