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The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the Backgammon board and get them from the board quicker than your opponent who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a game of Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. How far you will be able to shift your chips is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and the way you move your pieces are determined by your overall gambling strategies. Players use a number of strategies in the differing parts of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game plan is to lure all your pieces into your home board and bear them off as quickly as you can. This plan focuses on the speed of moving your checkers with absolutely no time spent to hit or stop your opponent’s checkers. The ideal time to employ this plan is when you think you can shift your own chips a lot faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; or 3) the opponent does not use the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main aim of the blocking tactic, by its title, is to block your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your chips rapidly. After you’ve established the blockage for your opponent’s movement with a few chips, you can shift your other checkers quickly off the game board. You will need to also have a good strategy when to back off and move the chips that you used for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your opponent uses the same blocking technique.