Backgammon Information

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The aim of a Backgammon game is to move your chips around the game board and pull those pieces off the game board quicker than your opposing player who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a round in Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. How far you can move your checkers is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you move your pieces are determined by your overall playing strategies. Enthusiasts use different plans in the differing stages of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game tactic is to entice all your checkers into your inner board and bear them off as fast as you can. This plan focuses on the speed of moving your checkers with no time spent to hit or barricade your opponent’s pieces. The ideal scenario to employ this strategy is when you believe you can shift your own checkers a lot faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have less pieces on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s checkers; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Plan

The primary aim of the blocking plan, by its title, is to block your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about moving your checkers quickly. After you’ve established the blockage for the competitor’s movement with a few pieces, you can move your other pieces quickly off the board. You will need to also have a clear plan when to extract and move the checkers that you used for the blockade. The game gets interesting when your opponent uses the same blocking technique.