The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part One
Posted in Backgammon on 01/12/2026 04:25 am by Jillian
The goal of a Backgammon match is to move your checkers around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces off the game board quicker than your opposing player who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a game in Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. How far you will be able to shift your chips is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you move your chips are decided on by your overall playing tactics. Players use a few tactics in the differing stages of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Technique
The goal of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your checkers into your home board and bear them off as quick as you could. This technique concentrates on the pace of shifting your pieces with absolutely no time spent to hit or barricade your competitor’s checkers. The best time to use this strategy is when you think you can move your own pieces quicker than your opposing player does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s checkers; or 3) your opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking strategy.
The Blocking Game Tactic
The primary aim of the blocking strategy, by the title, is to block your competitor’s checkers, temporarily, not fretting about moving your pieces quickly. As soon as you have created the barrier for the opponent’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other checkers rapidly off the board. You should also have a good plan when to back off and shift the checkers that you employed for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when your competitor uses the same blocking technique.