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The objective of a Backgammon match is to move your chips around the game board and pull those pieces off the board faster than your opponent who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a round in Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. How far you can move your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and just how you move your pieces are decided on by your overall gambling strategies. Players use a few plans in the different parts of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The goal of the Running Game plan is to lure all your pieces into your home board and pull them off as fast as you could. This strategy focuses on the pace of advancing your pieces with little or no time spent to hit or stop your opponent’s chips. The ideal time to use this tactic is when you think you can move your own chips a lot faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the board; 2) all your checkers have past your opponent’s checkers; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main goal of the blocking technique, by the name, is to block your competitor’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about moving your chips quickly. As soon as you’ve created the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a few pieces, you can shift your other pieces swiftly from the game board. You should also have a good strategy when to back off and shift the chips that you used for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when the competitor utilizes the same blocking technique.