The objective of a Backgammon match is to move your checkers around the game board and get them off the board quicker than your challenger who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a round in Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. Just how far you will be able to shift your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and just how you shift your pieces are decided on by your overall playing techniques. Enthusiasts use a few plans in the different stages of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The goal of the Running Game plan is to entice all your checkers into your inside board and pull them off as quick as you can. This tactic concentrates on the speed of shifting your chips with no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s pieces. The ideal scenario to use this plan is when you think you can move your own chips faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your checkers have past your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main aim of the blocking plan, by the name, is to stop the competitor’s pieces, temporarily, not fretting about shifting your checkers rapidly. After you have established the barrier for the opponent’s movement with a few chips, you can shift your other pieces quickly off the board. The player will need to also have a clear plan when to extract and move the chips that you employed for the blockade. The game gets intriguing when the opponent utilizes the same blocking tactic.