The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the Backgammon board and pull those pieces from the board faster than your competitor who works harder to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a match of Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. How far you can move your pieces is left to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and the way you move your pieces are determined by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use different tactics in the differing parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Plan
The goal of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your checkers into your inner board and bear them off as quick as you could. This technique concentrates on the pace of advancing your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or barricade your opponent’s pieces. The ideal scenario to use this strategy is when you think you can move your own checkers a lot faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have less pieces on the game board; 2) all your pieces have past your opponent’s chips; or 3) your opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Plan
The primary goal of the blocking plan, by its title, is to stop your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your chips quickly. As soon as you have created the barrier for the competitor’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other pieces quickly off the board. You will need to also have a good strategy when to back off and move the checkers that you used for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when the opponent utilizes the same blocking tactic.