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The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your chips around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces off the board faster than your opponent who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a round of Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and luck. How far you will be able to move your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing techniques. Players use differing techniques in the different parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your checkers into your home board and bear them off as quickly as you could. This tactic concentrates on the pace of shifting your chips with no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s pieces. The best time to use this tactic is when you think you can shift your own pieces faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have less chips on the game board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary goal of the blocking plan, by the name, is to stop your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about moving your checkers quickly. Once you’ve established the blockade for your competitor’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other checkers quickly from the board. You should also have a clear plan when to extract and move the checkers that you used for the blockade. The game gets interesting when the opponent utilizes the same blocking tactic.