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The Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 1

January 22nd, 2026 Leave a comment Go to comments

The objective of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the game board and bear those pieces from the game board faster than your opponent who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a round in Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and good luck. 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 techniques. Players use a few strategies in the different parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The aim of the Running Game technique is to bring all your checkers into your home board and get them off as fast as you could. This tactic concentrates on the speed of moving your chips with no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s chips. The best scenario to use this technique is when you think you can move your own checkers a lot faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the game board; 2) all your checkers have past your competitor’s pieces; or 3) your opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main aim of the blocking plan, by its name, is to block your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your chips rapidly. Once you’ve established the blockage for your opponent’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can move your other pieces rapidly off the game board. You should also have a good strategy when to withdraw and shift the pieces that you employed for the blockade. The game gets interesting when the opposition utilizes the same blocking tactic.

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