The objective of a Backgammon game is to move your chips around the game board and bear them off the board quicker than your opponent who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a round in Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. How far you can move your chips is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and how you shift your checkers are determined by your overall gambling plans. Players use differing strategies in the differing parts of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Strategy
The aim of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your chips into your inside board and bear them off as quickly as you can. This plan focuses on the speed of shifting your pieces with absolutely no time spent to hit or block your competitor’s pieces. The best scenario to employ this strategy is when you believe you can shift your own checkers quicker than your opposition does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your checkers have past your competitor’s chips; or 3) your opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking plan.
The Blocking Game Plan
The main goal of the blocking strategy, by the name, is to block your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, not fretting about shifting your pieces rapidly. As soon as you have established the barrier for the competitor’s movement with a couple of chips, you can shift your other pieces rapidly from the board. You will need to also have a good strategy when to extract and move the checkers that you employed for blocking. The game gets intriguing when your competitor uses the same blocking tactic.