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The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the game board and bear those pieces from the game board quicker than your opposing player who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a match of Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. Just how far you can shift your chips is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your chips are determined by your overall playing strategies. Enthusiasts use a number of strategies in the differing stages of a match depending on your positions and opponent's.

The Running Game Tactic

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your chips into your inside board and get them off as quickly as you could. This tactic focuses on the pace of shifting your pieces with absolutely no time spent to hit or barricade your opponent's checkers. The ideal time to employ this technique is when you believe you can shift your own pieces a lot faster than your opposing player does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your competitor's chips; or 3) your opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main aim of the blocking technique, by the name, is to block your competitor's checkers, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your checkers quickly. After you have created the blockage for your opponent's movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other checkers rapidly off the board. You should also have a good plan when to back off and move the pieces that you utilized for blocking. The game gets interesting when the competitor utilizes the same blocking technique.