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The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your chips around the Backgammon board and pull those pieces from the game board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a match of Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and fortune. How far you will be able to shift your checkers is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you move your chips are decided on by your overall playing tactics. Players use a number of strategies in the different stages of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your checkers into your home board and bear them off as quick as you could. This strategy focuses on the pace of shifting your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s chips. The ideal scenario to employ this plan is when you think you might be able to move your own checkers faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) your opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary aim of the blocking technique, by the title, is to block your competitor’s checkers, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your checkers rapidly. After you’ve established the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can shift your other checkers swiftly from the board. You should also have an apparent plan when to withdraw and shift the pieces that you used for blocking. The game gets interesting when your opposition uses the same blocking tactic.