The objective of a Backgammon game is to shift your chips around the Backgammon board and get those pieces off the game board faster than your opponent who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a match of Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and fortune. Just how far you can shift your chips is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your chips are decided on by your overall playing techniques. Players use different techniques in the differing parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The goal of the Running Game tactic is to lure all your pieces into your home board and get them off as quickly as you can. This plan concentrates on the speed of advancing your pieces with little or no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s chips. The ideal scenario to use this technique is when you think you can move your own checkers a lot faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; or 3) your opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary goal of the blocking strategy, by the name, is to block the competitor’s checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your chips rapidly. Once you have established the blockage for the opponent’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can shift your other chips rapidly off the board. You really should also have a clear strategy when to extract and move the pieces that you used for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when the opponent utilizes the same blocking tactic.