The Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 1
Posted in Backgammon on 03/28/2026 07:25 am by Lillie
The objective of a Backgammon match is to move your chips around the Backgammon board and get them off the board faster than your challenger who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round of Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. Just how far you can move your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your chips are determined by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use different plans in the differing parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Tactic
The aim of the Running Game technique is to lure all your pieces into your home board and bear them off as fast as you can. This strategy concentrates on the speed of advancing your checkers with no efforts to hit or barricade your opponent’s pieces. The ideal scenario to employ this technique is when you believe you can shift your own chips faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Strategy
The primary aim of the blocking technique, by its title, is to stop your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your chips rapidly. As soon as you’ve established the barrier for the competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other pieces rapidly from the board. You should also have a good plan when to back off and move the checkers that you utilized for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when your opposition utilizes the same blocking technique.