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The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your checkers around the game board and bear them off the game board quicker than your competitor who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a match of Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and fortune. How far you can shift your chips is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you move your chips are determined by your overall playing strategies. Players use a few tactics in the different stages of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The goal of the Running Game technique is to lure all your pieces into your home board and pull them off as fast as you can. This technique concentrates on the pace of advancing your chips with no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s checkers. The ideal scenario to use this tactic is when you believe you can move your own checkers faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your opponent’s pieces; or 3) your opponent does not use the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Plan

The primary aim of the blocking technique, by the title, is to stop the competitor’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about moving your pieces rapidly. After you have created the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can move your other pieces quickly from the game board. The player should also have an apparent plan when to withdraw and shift the chips that you used for blocking. The game becomes interesting when the opposition utilizes the same blocking tactic.