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The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the game board and bear those pieces off the game board faster than your opposing player who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. How far you can shift your chips is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you shift your chips are determined by your overall playing plans. Players use a number of tactics in the different stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your checkers into your home board and bear them off as fast as you could. This technique focuses on the pace of advancing your pieces with absolutely no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s pieces. The ideal scenario to use this technique is when you believe you might be able to shift your own checkers faster than your opposing player does: when 1) you have less pieces on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s chips; or 3) your opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main goal of the blocking tactic, by its title, is to block your opponent’s chips, temporarily, not fretting about moving your checkers quickly. After you have established the barrier for your opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other chips rapidly off the game board. You should also have a clear strategy when to back off and move the chips that you used for blocking. The game gets intriguing when the competitor uses the same blocking technique.