Backgammon Strategy Backgammon Strategy for Dummies

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The goal of a Backgammon match is to move your checkers around the game board and bear them from the game board faster than your opposing player who works harder to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a game of Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. How far you can shift your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and just how you move your chips are decided on by your overall playing plans. Players use a few strategies in the different stages of a match depending on your positions and opponent's.

The Running Game Tactic

The aim of the Running Game tactic is to bring all your pieces into your inside board and pull them off as quickly as you can. This tactic concentrates on the pace of moving your chips with little or no efforts to hit or barricade your opponent's pieces. The best scenario to use this plan is when you believe you can shift your own checkers a lot faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your opponent's chips; or 3) your opponent does not use the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main aim of the blocking tactic, by the name, is to block your opponent's chips, temporarily, not fretting about shifting your checkers quickly. Once you've established the blockage for the competitor's movement with a few chips, you can shift your other pieces swiftly from the board. You will need to also have a clear strategy when to extract and move the checkers that you used for the blockade. The game gets interesting when your opposition uses the same blocking technique.