The objective of a Backgammon match is to move your pieces around the Backgammon board and pull those pieces off the game board quicker than your competitor who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a round in Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. Just how far you can shift your chips is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and the way you move your pieces are decided on by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use different plans in the different stages of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The aim of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your chips into your inside board and pull them off as fast as you could. This plan concentrates on the speed of moving your chips with little or no time spent to hit or barricade your opponent’s pieces. The best time to employ this strategy is when you believe you can move your own checkers a lot faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The primary goal of the blocking strategy, by the name, is to stop your competitor’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your checkers rapidly. After you’ve established the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other checkers quickly off the game board. You will need to also have a clear strategy when to extract and move the checkers that you employed for blocking. The game gets interesting when the opponent uses the same blocking tactic.