The aim of a Backgammon game is to move your chips around the Backgammon board and get those pieces from the board quicker than your competitor who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a round in Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. Just how far you can shift your checkers is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your chips are determined by your overall playing plans. Players use differing strategies in the differing parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The goal of the Running Game plan is to bring all your chips into your home board and bear them off as quickly as you can. This tactic concentrates on the pace of moving your pieces with absolutely no time spent to hit or stop your competitor’s pieces. The best time to use this technique is when you think you can shift your own chips faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent’s chips; or 3) the opponent does not use the hitting or blocking plan.
The Blocking Game Technique
The primary aim of the blocking technique, by its name, is to block the opponent’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about moving your chips quickly. As soon as you’ve created the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other checkers rapidly from the board. The player will need to also have a good plan when to extract and move the checkers that you utilized for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when the opposition uses the same blocking strategy.