The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the game board and get those pieces off the board quicker than your opposing player who works harder to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match in Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you will be able to shift your checkers is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and how you move your pieces are decided on by your overall playing strategies. Players use a number of tactics in the different parts of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The aim of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your checkers into your home board and get them off as quick as you could. This strategy concentrates on the speed of advancing your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or stop your competitor’s pieces. The best scenario to use this plan is when you believe you can shift your own checkers faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your pieces have past your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Plan
The main goal of the blocking technique, by its title, is to block your competitor’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about moving your checkers quickly. After you have established the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other pieces quickly from the board. You should also have a clear plan when to extract and shift the checkers that you used for the blockade. The game gets intriguing when your opposition uses the same blocking tactic.