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The aim of a Backgammon match is to move your chips around the game board and bear them from the game board faster than your competitor who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a round of Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. 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 pieces are determined by your overall playing strategies. Players use different plans in the different parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The aim of the Running Game technique is to entice all your chips into your home board and bear them off as quick as you could. This technique concentrates on the pace of advancing your pieces with no efforts to hit or stop your competitor’s pieces. The ideal scenario to employ this strategy is when you believe you might be able to shift your own checkers quicker than the opponent does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your competitor’s chips; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main aim of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to block the opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your chips rapidly. Once you have established the barrier for the opponent’s movement with a few pieces, you can shift your other chips swiftly off the board. You will need to also have a good strategy when to back off and shift the pieces that you utilized for the blockade. The game gets intriguing when your competitor utilizes the same blocking tactic.