The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your pieces around the game board and get those pieces off the board faster than your competitor who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a round in Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. Just how far you can move your chips is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you shift your chips are determined by your overall gambling strategies. Enthusiasts use a few techniques in the differing parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Technique
The aim of the Running Game technique is to bring all your checkers into your inner board and pull them off as fast as you can. This strategy focuses on the pace of advancing your chips with little or no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s pieces. The ideal scenario to employ this tactic is when you think you might be able to move your own chips faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your checkers have past your opponent’s checkers; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Strategy
The main goal of the blocking strategy, by the name, is to stop the opponent’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about moving your checkers rapidly. As soon as you’ve established the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other checkers rapidly off the board. The player will need to also have an apparent strategy when to withdraw and shift the chips that you used for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when your opponent utilizes the same blocking technique.