Backgammon All About Backgammon

Read more about the
Las Vegas 2024 Super
Bowl Streaker!

The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the game board and bear them off the board quicker than your opposing player who works harder to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a match in Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. How far you can move your checkers is left to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and how you move your chips are determined by your overall gambling tactics. Enthusiasts use differing strategies in the different parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The goal of the Running Game tactic is to bring all your pieces into your inner board and pull them off as quickly as you can. This technique focuses on the speed of shifting your pieces with no efforts to hit or stop your competitor’s pieces. The ideal time to use this plan is when you think you might be able to shift your own checkers a lot faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the game board; 2) all your pieces have past your competitor’s chips; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main aim of the blocking strategy, by the name, is to stop your competitor’s checkers, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your pieces rapidly. After you’ve created the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a few pieces, you can move your other checkers rapidly off the board. You should also have a clear strategy when to withdraw and shift the chips that you used for blocking. The game gets intriguing when your opponent uses the same blocking technique.