The goal of a Backgammon match is to shift your checkers around the game board and get them off the game board faster than your competitor who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a match in Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. How far you will be able to shift your checkers is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and the way you shift your checkers are determined by your overall gambling techniques. Enthusiasts use differing techniques in the differing stages of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The aim of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your chips into your inner board and bear them off as quick as you can. This tactic concentrates on the pace of moving your pieces with little or no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s checkers. The best scenario to use this plan is when you think you can move your own checkers faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Plan
The main goal of the blocking plan, by its title, is to stop the opponent’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about moving your pieces rapidly. As soon as you’ve created the blockage for the opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other chips swiftly from the board. The player will need to also have an apparent strategy when to extract and move the chips that you employed for blocking. The game gets interesting when your opposition uses the same blocking technique.