The objective of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the game board and bear those pieces off the game board quicker than your opponent who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a round in Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. How far you can shift your chips is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and the way you shift your chips are decided on by your overall gambling tactics. Players use a few techniques in the differing stages of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Plan
The aim of the Running Game plan is to bring all your chips into your home board and get them off as quickly as you can. This plan concentrates on the pace of shifting your pieces with absolutely no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s pieces. The ideal scenario to employ this tactic is when you think you might be able to move your own checkers quicker than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) your opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The primary goal of the blocking strategy, by the title, is to block your competitor’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your pieces rapidly. Once you have established the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can shift your other checkers rapidly from the board. The player should also have a clear plan when to extract and move the checkers that you used for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your competitor utilizes the same blocking strategy.