The goal of a Backgammon match is to move your chips around the game board and get those pieces from the board faster than your competitor who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match of Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. Just how far you can move your chips is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and the way you shift your chips are determined by your overall playing techniques. Enthusiasts use a few plans in the different parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The aim of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your pieces into your inner board and get them off as quick as you could. This strategy concentrates on the speed of advancing your pieces with little or no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s checkers. The ideal scenario to use this strategy is when you believe you might be able to shift your own checkers faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) your opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Technique
The main goal of the blocking strategy, by its title, is to block the competitor’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. After you’ve created the barrier for the competitor’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can move your other pieces swiftly from the board. The player will need to also have a good plan when to extract and shift the checkers that you used for the blockade. The game gets interesting when the opponent utilizes the same blocking strategy.