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The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your chips around the game board and pull those pieces off the board faster than your competitor who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a game of Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. How far you can move your chips is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and how you shift your chips are determined by your overall playing strategies. Enthusiasts use differing techniques in the different stages of a match based on your positions and opponent's.

The Running Game Plan

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your checkers into your home board and get them off as quickly as you can. This strategy focuses on the speed of moving your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or block your opponent's checkers. The best time to employ this plan is when you think you might be able to shift your own pieces faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your competitor's checkers; or 3) the opponent doesn't employ the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Technique

The primary aim of the blocking strategy, by the title, is to block the opponent's checkers, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your pieces rapidly. Once you've established the blockade for the opponent's movement with a couple of checkers, you can shift your other chips quickly off the game board. The player really should also have a good strategy when to withdraw and shift the pieces that you used for blocking. The game gets interesting when the competitor uses the same blocking tactic.