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The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 1
July 9th, 2025 by Claudia

The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the Backgammon board and get them off the board quicker than your challenger who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match of Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and luck. Just how far you can shift your chips is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and just how you move your checkers are decided on by your overall playing strategies. Players use a number of tactics in the different parts of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game tactic is to entice all your checkers into your inner board and get them off as quick as you can. This technique focuses on the speed of shifting your chips with little or no time spent to hit or stop your opponent’s pieces. The best time to employ this plan is when you think you might be able to move your own checkers a lot faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have less chips on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor’s pieces; or 3) your opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main aim of the blocking technique, by its name, is to block the competitor’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. As soon as you have established the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other pieces rapidly from the game board. You should also have an apparent strategy when to withdraw and move the chips that you employed for blocking. The game becomes interesting when the competitor uses the same blocking strategy.


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