The goal of a Backgammon match is to shift your pieces around the Backgammon board and get them off the game board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match of Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. How far you will be able to shift your pieces is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and how you move your pieces are determined by your overall gambling techniques. Enthusiasts use different plans in the differing parts of a match dependent 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 bear them off as quick as you can. This technique focuses on the speed of advancing your pieces with little or no time spent to hit or block your opponent’s chips. The best time to employ this tactic is when you believe you might be able to move your own chips faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the board; 2) all your checkers have past your competitor’s chips; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The primary goal of the blocking technique, by its title, is to stop your competitor’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. Once you’ve created the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other pieces rapidly from the game board. You should also have a good strategy when to extract and shift the chips that you utilized for blocking. The game gets intriguing when your opponent utilizes the same blocking technique.