The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 1

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The aim of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the Backgammon board and pull those pieces from the game board quicker than your competitor who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a round in Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. Just how far you will be able to move your pieces is left to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and how you move your chips are determined by your overall playing techniques. Players use different strategies in the different parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your checkers into your home board and bear them off as fast as you could. This technique focuses on the pace of advancing your chips with no efforts to hit or stop your competitor’s pieces. The best scenario to use this plan is when you believe you can move your own chips quicker than your opponent does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; or 3) the opponent does not use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Plan

The primary aim of the blocking strategy, by its name, is to block the opponent’s checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your chips quickly. As soon as you have created the blockage for the competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other checkers rapidly off the game board. The player really should also have an apparent strategy when to back off and move the checkers that you used for blocking. The game becomes interesting when the opposition uses the same blocking technique.