The aim of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the Backgammon board and get them from the board quicker than your competitor who works harder to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round of Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you can shift your pieces is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and just how you shift your chips are determined by your overall gambling plans. Players use differing techniques in the different stages of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Plan
The goal of the Running Game plan is to entice all your checkers into your inner board and pull them off as quickly as you could. This tactic concentrates on the speed of advancing your chips with absolutely no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s pieces. The ideal scenario to use this tactic is when you think you can shift your own checkers a lot faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have less chips on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) your opponent does not use the hitting or blocking tactic.
The Blocking Game Plan
The primary goal of the blocking tactic, by its title, is to stop the competitor’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your pieces quickly. As soon as you’ve created the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other pieces quickly off the game board. The player should also have a clear plan when to withdraw and move the chips that you employed for blocking. The game gets interesting when the competitor utilizes the same blocking strategy.