The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your chips around the game board and get those pieces from the game board quicker than your competitor who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. Just how far you can move your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you move your pieces are determined by your overall gambling tactics. Enthusiasts use differing plans in the differing stages of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your chips into your home board and get them off as fast as you could. This technique focuses on the pace of advancing your checkers with no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s checkers. The best time to employ this tactic is when you think you might be able to shift your own chips quicker than your opponent does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) the opponent does not use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main aim of the blocking technique, by the title, is to block the competitor’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your pieces rapidly. After you have established the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other pieces swiftly from the game board. The player will need to also have a clear plan when to extract and shift the chips that you utilized for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your opposition uses the same blocking tactic.