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The aim of a Backgammon game is to move your chips around the Backgammon board and get those pieces off the game board faster than your challenger who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. How far you can move your chips is left to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and just how you shift your pieces are determined by your overall playing tactics. Players use differing strategies in the differing parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game technique is to lure all your chips into your inner board and bear them off as fast as you can. This tactic focuses on the speed of moving your checkers with no time spent to hit or block your competitor’s pieces. The best scenario to use this plan is when you think you can move your own chips faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s chips; or 3) your opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary aim of the blocking plan, by its name, is to stop your opponent’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about moving your pieces quickly. As soon as you have established the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other chips quickly off the board. You should also have a good strategy when to withdraw and move the chips that you employed for blocking. The game gets interesting when the opponent utilizes the same blocking strategy.