The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 1
Posted in Backgammon on 09/19/2025 01:25 pm by Lillie
The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the Backgammon board and get them from the board faster than your challenger who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. Just how far you will be able to shift your checkers is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you move your pieces are determined by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use a number of tactics in the differing parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The goal of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your checkers into your home board and bear them off as quickly as you could. This strategy focuses on the pace of shifting your pieces with little or no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s checkers. The ideal time to use this tactic is when you think you might be able to shift your own chips faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your opponent’s checkers; or 3) your opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Strategy
The main aim of the blocking strategy, by the title, is to block the opponent’s chips, temporarily, not fretting about shifting your pieces quickly. Once you have created the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can shift your other chips swiftly off the game board. You will need to also have a clear strategy when to extract and shift the pieces that you used for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when the competitor utilizes the same blocking technique.