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The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your pieces around the Backgammon board and bear them off the board quicker than your opposing player who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a game of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. Just how far you will be able to shift your chips is left to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and how you move your checkers are decided on by your overall playing tactics. Players use a few techniques in the different stages of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your checkers into your home board and pull them off as quickly as you can. This plan focuses on the speed of advancing your pieces with absolutely no time spent to hit or barricade your opponent’s pieces. The ideal scenario to use this strategy is when you think you might be able to shift your own chips quicker than the opponent does: when 1) you have less chips on the game board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; or 3) the opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Technique

The primary goal of the blocking plan, by the title, is to block your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your chips quickly. As soon as you’ve established the blockage for your opponent’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can shift your other chips quickly from the board. You will need to also have an apparent plan when to withdraw and move the checkers that you employed for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when your competitor uses the same blocking strategy.