The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the game board and pull them off the board quicker than your opponent who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a game in Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. How far you will be able to move your checkers is left to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and the way you shift your checkers are decided on by your overall playing techniques. Enthusiasts use a number of strategies in the differing parts of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The aim of the Running Game plan is to lure all your chips into your home board and pull them off as fast as you can. This plan focuses on the pace of advancing your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s pieces. The best time to employ this technique is when you believe you might be able to shift your own checkers faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have less chips on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor’s pieces; or 3) your opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking plan.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The primary goal of the blocking plan, by its name, is to stop your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, not fretting about shifting your pieces rapidly. Once you’ve established the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can shift your other pieces swiftly off the game board. The player should also have an apparent plan when to extract and move the checkers that you used for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when the competitor uses the same blocking technique.