The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 1
Posted in Backgammon on 11/08/2026 08:25 am by Jillian
The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your pieces around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces from the board quicker than your competitor who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a match of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. Just how far you can move your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you move your checkers are decided on by your overall playing tactics. Players use different plans in the differing parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.
The Running Game Plan
The aim of the Running Game plan is to entice all your chips into your home board and bear them off as quickly as you could. This plan concentrates on the pace of advancing your checkers with no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s pieces. The ideal scenario to employ this plan is when you think you might be able to move your own pieces faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your checkers have past your opponent’s chips; or 3) your opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking technique.
The Blocking Game Technique
The primary goal of the blocking plan, by its title, is to stop the competitor’s checkers, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your checkers rapidly. Once you’ve established the barrier for the competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can shift your other pieces rapidly from the game board. You will need to also have a clear strategy when to withdraw and move the checkers that you utilized for blocking. The game gets interesting when the competitor utilizes the same blocking tactic.