The goal of a Backgammon match is to move your checkers around the Backgammon board and pull those pieces off the game board faster than your opposing player who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a round of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. Just how far you will be able to move your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you move your pieces are decided on by your overall playing tactics. Players use differing plans in the different parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Plan
The goal of the Running Game plan is to lure all your pieces into your inside board and bear them off as quickly as you could. This strategy concentrates on the pace of advancing your pieces with little or no time spent to hit or stop your competitor’s checkers. The ideal scenario to use this tactic is when you believe you might be able to move your own checkers quicker than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opponent does not use the hitting or blocking tactic.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The primary aim of the blocking technique, by its title, is to block the opponent’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your chips quickly. As soon as you’ve created the blockade for your competitor’s movement with a few pieces, you can move your other chips swiftly off the board. You will need to also have an apparent plan when to back off and move the pieces that you employed for the blockade. The game gets intriguing when the opposition uses the same blocking strategy.
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