The goal of a Backgammon match is to shift your pieces around the game board and pull them off the game board faster than your opponent who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a round of Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you can shift your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you shift your chips are decided on by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use different plans in the different parts of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Strategy
The aim of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your pieces into your inner board and bear them off as fast as you can. This technique focuses on the pace of moving your pieces with little or no efforts to hit or stop your competitor’s pieces. The best time to employ this plan is when you believe you might be able to move your own chips quicker than the opposition does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your competitor’s chips; or 3) your opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Technique
The primary goal of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to stop the competitor’s chips, temporarily, not fretting about moving your chips rapidly. After you’ve created the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can shift your other checkers rapidly off the game board. You should also have a good plan when to withdraw and move the pieces that you employed for blocking. The game gets interesting when your opponent uses the same blocking technique.