The aim of a Backgammon match is to move your pieces around the game board and get those pieces from the game board faster than your competitor who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round in Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. How far you will be able to move your checkers is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and just how you shift your chips are decided on by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use differing tactics in the differing parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

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

The Blocking Game Plan

The primary aim of the blocking plan, by its name, is to block your opponent’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your pieces rapidly. As soon as you have created the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can shift your other checkers quickly from the board. You should also have a clear plan when to withdraw and move the checkers that you employed for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your competitor uses the same blocking strategy.