The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the game board and get them from the board quicker than your challenger who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match of Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. How far you will be able to move your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing tactics. Players use a number of strategies in the different parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The goal of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your pieces into your home board and bear them off as quick as you could. This tactic concentrates on the pace of advancing your pieces with absolutely no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s pieces. The best time to use this plan is when you believe you might be able to move your own chips faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Strategy
The main goal of the blocking plan, by the name, is to stop your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. Once you’ve established the blockage for the opponent’s movement with a few pieces, you can shift your other chips swiftly off the board. The player should also have an apparent strategy when to withdraw and move the chips that you used for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when the opposition uses the same blocking technique.