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The goal of a Backgammon match is to move your pieces around the Backgammon board and bear them off the board quicker than your challenger who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a match in Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. How far you can move your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you shift your pieces are determined by your overall gambling strategies. Enthusiasts use a few strategies in the different stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game technique is to bring all your pieces into your home board and pull them off as quickly as you can. This strategy focuses on the speed of shifting your pieces with no time spent to hit or barricade your opponent’s pieces. The ideal scenario to use this strategy is when you believe you can move your own pieces a lot faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the game board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main aim of the blocking tactic, by the title, is to block your competitor’s checkers, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your checkers quickly. As soon as you have established the blockage for the opponent’s movement with a couple of chips, you can shift your other pieces quickly off the game board. You will need to also have a good plan when to extract and shift the chips that you used for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when your opponent utilizes the same blocking tactic.