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The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the game board and get those pieces off the game board faster than your opponent who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round in Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. How far you will be able to shift your checkers is left to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and the way you shift your chips are determined by your overall playing techniques. Players use differing techniques in the different parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your checkers into your inner board and pull them off as fast as you could. This technique concentrates on the pace of moving your chips with absolutely no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s checkers. The ideal scenario to employ this plan is when you think you might be able to shift your own pieces quicker than your opposition does: when 1) you have less pieces on the game board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your competitor’s chips; or 3) your opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main goal of the blocking plan, by its name, is to block the competitor’s chips, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your checkers rapidly. As soon as you have created the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other pieces swiftly off the game board. You should also have an apparent plan when to withdraw and move the pieces that you employed for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your opposition uses the same blocking strategy.