The goal of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the Backgammon board and bear them from the game board quicker than your competitor who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a match of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. Just how far you will be able to move your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and just how you move your pieces are determined by your overall playing techniques. Enthusiasts use a number of strategies in the different stages of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Strategy
The goal of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your pieces into your inner board and bear them off as fast as you can. This plan concentrates on the speed of shifting your pieces with absolutely no time spent to hit or barricade your opponent’s pieces. The best time to employ this tactic is when you think you might be able to shift your own pieces faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have less pieces on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s chips; or 3) the opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The main goal of the blocking technique, by the title, is to block the opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your checkers rapidly. Once you have created the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a few pieces, you can shift your other pieces rapidly from the game board. The player will need to also have a good strategy when to back off and shift the chips that you used for blocking. The game gets interesting when your competitor uses the same blocking tactic.