The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your pieces around the game board and get those pieces off the game board quicker than your opposing player who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round in Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. Just how far you will be able to move your chips is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you shift your chips are determined by your overall playing techniques. Players use different tactics in the differing stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The goal of the Running Game technique is to bring all your checkers into your inside board and get them off as fast as you could. This tactic concentrates on the pace of advancing your chips with absolutely no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s pieces. The ideal scenario to use this strategy is when you believe you might be able to move your own checkers faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking plan.
The Blocking Game Strategy
The main goal of the blocking strategy, by the name, is to block the opponent’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about moving your chips rapidly. Once you have established the barrier for the competitor’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other pieces rapidly off the game board. You should also have a good strategy when to withdraw and shift the chips that you used for the blockade. The game becomes intriguing when the opposition uses the same blocking technique.