The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your pieces around the Backgammon board and pull them off the game board quicker than your opposing player who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a round of Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. Just how far you can move your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you shift your chips are decided on by your overall gambling strategies. Players use a few plans in the different stages of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The goal of the Running Game tactic is to bring all your pieces into your inner board and get them off as quick as you could. This plan focuses on the pace of advancing your chips with absolutely no time spent to hit or block your competitor’s chips. The ideal time to use this tactic is when you believe you might be able to shift your own chips a lot faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the board; 2) all your checkers have past your opponent’s chips; or 3) your opponent does not use the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Plan
The main goal of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to stop the competitor’s chips, temporarily, not fretting about moving your chips quickly. As soon as you have established the barrier for your opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can shift your other chips quickly off the game board. You should also have an apparent strategy when to back off and shift the checkers that you employed for blocking. The game gets interesting when the opposition uses the same blocking strategy.