The goal of a Backgammon match is to shift your pieces around the game board and get them off the board quicker than your challenger who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite 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 move your checkers are determined by your overall playing techniques. Players use differing plans in the different parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Strategy
The goal of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your checkers into your inner board and pull them off as quickly as you can. This tactic concentrates on the pace of advancing your pieces with absolutely no efforts to hit or stop your competitor’s pieces. The best time to use this strategy is when you think you can shift your own checkers a lot faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking tactic.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The primary aim of the blocking technique, by its name, is to stop your competitor’s checkers, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your checkers rapidly. As soon as you have created the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a few chips, you can shift your other pieces quickly off the game board. You will need to also have a clear strategy when to extract and shift the chips that you used for blocking. The game gets interesting when the opposition utilizes the same blocking tactic.