The goal of a Backgammon match is to shift your checkers around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces from the game board faster than your challenger who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a round of Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. Just how far you will be able to move your checkers is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and just how you move your checkers are decided on by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use differing strategies in the different parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your chips into your inner board and pull them off as quickly as you can. This technique focuses on the speed of advancing your chips with no time spent to hit or block your competitor’s chips. The ideal time to use this strategy is when you think you might be able to move your own checkers quicker than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor’s pieces; or 3) your opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Plan

The primary aim of the blocking technique, by its name, is to block the competitor’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about moving your pieces rapidly. As soon as you’ve created the blockage for your opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other chips quickly from the game board. The player really should also have a clear strategy when to extract and move the pieces that you employed for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when the opponent utilizes the same blocking technique.