The Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 1
Posted in Backgammon on 10/08/2025 09:25 am by Jillian
The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your chips around the game board and bear them off the game board faster than your challenger who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match in Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. Just how far you will be able to shift your checkers is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your checkers are determined by your overall gambling tactics. Players use different strategies in the different parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Strategy
The aim of the Running Game plan is to entice all your pieces into your inner board and get them off as fast as you could. This plan focuses on the pace of shifting your checkers with no time spent to hit or barricade your opponent’s checkers. The best scenario to use this technique is when you think you can shift your own chips faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; or 3) your opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking plan.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The primary goal of the blocking plan, by the title, is to block the competitor’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about moving your chips quickly. Once you’ve established the barrier for your opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can shift your other checkers quickly from the game board. You will need to also have a good plan when to withdraw and shift the pieces that you employed for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when your opponent utilizes the same blocking strategy.