The objective of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the Backgammon board and get them off the game board quicker than your competitor who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match in Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and luck. Just how far you will be able to shift your chips is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and the way you move your pieces are determined by your overall playing strategies. Enthusiasts use different plans in the differing stages of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your pieces into your home board and bear them off as quickly as you can. This technique concentrates on the pace of moving your chips with little or no time spent to hit or block your opponent’s checkers. The ideal scenario to use this strategy is when you believe you can shift your own pieces faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Technique

The main goal of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to block your competitor’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about moving your chips quickly. As soon as you have created the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can shift your other pieces quickly from the board. The player will need to also have an apparent strategy when to extract and move the chips that you used for the blockade. The game gets intriguing when the opposition utilizes the same blocking tactic.