The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the game board and bear them from the game board quicker than your challenger who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a round in Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. How far you can move your pieces is up to the numbers from tossing the dice, and how you shift your pieces are determined by your overall gambling plans. Enthusiasts use a few plans in the differing parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your checkers into your inside board and bear them off as fast as you can. This plan focuses on the pace of advancing your checkers with little or no time spent to hit or stop your opponent’s chips. The ideal scenario to employ this strategy is when you think you might be able to shift your own chips a lot faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) your opponent does not use the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Technique

The main goal of the blocking technique, by the name, is to stop the opponent’s chips, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your checkers quickly. As soon as you have established the blockage for your opponent’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can shift your other checkers quickly from the game board. You will need to also have an apparent plan when to withdraw and shift the chips that you employed for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when your opponent uses the same blocking strategy.