The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the Backgammon board and get them off the board faster than your opponent who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match of Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and luck. How far you can move your checkers is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and just how you move your checkers are determined by your overall playing tactics. Players use a number of plans in the differing stages of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game plan is to lure all your checkers into your inside board and get them off as quick as you could. This strategy concentrates on the pace of moving your checkers with no time spent to hit or block your competitor’s pieces. The ideal scenario to use this strategy is when you think you might be able to shift your own checkers quicker than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your competitor’s chips; or 3) your opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main aim of the blocking tactic, by the title, is to block the opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your chips quickly. Once you’ve created the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can move your other chips rapidly from the game board. The player should also have an apparent plan when to back off and shift the chips that you used for blocking. The game becomes interesting when the opposition uses the same blocking technique.