The goal of a Backgammon match is to move your chips around the Backgammon board and pull those pieces off the board quicker than your challenger who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round in Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and fortune. How far you will be able to move your chips is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you move your checkers are determined by your overall playing techniques. Enthusiasts use a number of tactics in the differing stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game technique is to entice all your checkers into your inner board and pull them off as quick as you could. This plan focuses on the speed of shifting your checkers with little or no time spent to hit or barricade your competitor’s checkers. The best time to employ this plan is when you think you might be able to move your own chips faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main goal of the blocking strategy, by its name, is to block the competitor’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your chips quickly. After you’ve created the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can shift your other pieces swiftly off the game board. The player will need to also have a good strategy when to extract and shift the chips that you utilized for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your opponent uses the same blocking tactic.