The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the game board and pull them from the game board faster than your opponent who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a game in Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. How far you will be able to shift your pieces is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and the way you shift your chips are decided on by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use differing plans in the different stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game technique is to bring all your checkers into your home board and get them off as quickly as you could. This technique concentrates on the pace of advancing your pieces with little or no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s pieces. The ideal scenario to use this strategy is when you believe you might be able to move your own pieces faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your opponent’s chips; or 3) your opponent does not use the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main goal of the blocking strategy, by its title, is to block the opponent’s pieces, temporarily, not fretting about moving your chips quickly. As soon as you have established the barrier for your opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other checkers rapidly from the game board. You will need to also have a good plan when to withdraw and shift the chips that you employed for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when your competitor uses the same blocking tactic.