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The goal of a Backgammon match is to shift your checkers around the Backgammon board and get them from the game board quicker than your opposing player who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match in Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. Just how far you will be able to shift your pieces is up to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you move your checkers are decided on by your overall playing strategies. Players use a number of strategies in the different stages of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your chips into your inside board and pull them off as fast as you can. This technique focuses on the pace of moving your chips with little or no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s checkers. The ideal scenario to use this technique is when you believe you can shift your own chips quicker than your opposition does: when 1) you have less pieces on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent’s checkers; or 3) the opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Plan

The primary aim of the blocking plan, by its title, is to block your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about moving your pieces quickly. Once you’ve established the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a few pieces, you can move your other chips swiftly off the game board. You will need to also have an apparent plan when to back off and shift the pieces that you utilized for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your opponent uses the same blocking technique.