Backgammon

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The goal of a Backgammon match is to move your pieces around the game board and get those pieces off the board faster than your opponent who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a round in Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you can shift your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your chips are determined by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use a number of tactics in the differing stages of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game technique is to entice all your pieces into your inner board and get them off as fast as you can. This plan focuses on the pace of advancing your chips with absolutely no efforts to hit or barricade your opponent’s chips. The ideal scenario to employ this plan is when you think you might be able to shift your own chips faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less pieces on the game board; 2) all your checkers have past your competitor’s chips; or 3) your opponent does not use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main aim of the blocking plan, by the title, is to stop your competitor’s chips, temporarily, not fretting about moving your chips rapidly. Once you have created the barrier for the competitor’s movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other checkers quickly from the game board. You will need to also have a clear plan when to extract and move the pieces that you used for blocking. The game gets interesting when the opposition uses the same blocking technique.