The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your checkers around the game board and pull those pieces off the board quicker than your challenger who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a round of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. How far you can move your checkers is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you shift your pieces are determined by your overall playing plans. Players use differing plans in the different stages of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The goal of the Running Game tactic is to entice all your checkers into your inner board and get them off as quickly as you could. This strategy focuses on the pace of advancing your chips with little or no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s chips. The ideal time to use this technique is when you believe you can shift your own checkers quicker than the opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; or 3) your opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The main goal of the blocking plan, by its name, is to stop the opponent’s chips, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your pieces rapidly. Once you have created the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other checkers swiftly from the board. You really should also have a clear plan when to extract and move the checkers that you used for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your competitor uses the same blocking technique.