The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift 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 match of Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and fortune. Just how far you will be able to move your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you move your checkers are determined by your overall gambling tactics. Enthusiasts use different plans in the different stages of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game plan is to bring all your chips into your home board and get them off as quick as you can. This technique concentrates on the pace of shifting your pieces with no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s pieces. The ideal scenario to use this tactic is when you think you can shift your own pieces a lot faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s chips; or 3) your opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main aim of the blocking strategy, by the name, is to stop the opponent’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about moving your checkers quickly. After you have established the barrier for the competitor’s movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other chips swiftly from the game board. The player will need to also have a clear strategy when to withdraw and shift the checkers that you used for blocking. The game gets interesting when the opposition utilizes the same blocking tactic.