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The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the game board and get them from the game board quicker than your competitor who works harder to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. How far you can move your pieces is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and just how you shift your pieces are determined by your overall playing plans. Players use differing plans in the different parts of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game tactic is to lure all your pieces into your home board and pull them off as quick as you could. This technique concentrates on the speed of moving your pieces with little or no time spent to hit or block your competitor’s checkers. The ideal scenario to use this tactic is when you think you can shift your own chips a lot faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) the opponent does not use the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main goal of the blocking strategy, by its title, is to stop your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, not fretting about moving your chips rapidly. Once you have created the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a couple of chips, you can shift your other chips swiftly off the game board. The player really should also have a clear strategy when to back off and move the pieces that you used for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when your opposition uses the same blocking technique.