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The objective of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces from the board faster than your opponent who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a round of Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. Just how far you can shift your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your pieces are decided on by your overall playing strategies. Players use different techniques in the differing stages of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The aim of the Running Game technique is to entice all your checkers into your inner board and get them off as fast as you could. This technique focuses on the pace of advancing your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s pieces. The best scenario to use this technique is when you believe you can move your own chips faster than the opposing player 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 opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The primary goal of the blocking strategy, by the title, is to stop your competitor’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about moving your chips quickly. Once you’ve created the blockage for the competitor’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other chips rapidly off the game board. The player really should also have a good plan when to withdraw and shift the checkers that you employed for blocking. The game gets interesting when the competitor uses the same blocking technique.