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The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your chips around the Backgammon board and get those pieces off the board faster than your challenger who works harder to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match in Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and fortune. Just how far you can move your chips is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use a number of tactics in the different stages of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your checkers into your inner board and bear them off as quick as you can. This strategy focuses on the pace of shifting your checkers with little or no time spent to hit or stop your opponent’s pieces. The best time to employ this plan is when you believe you might be able to shift your own chips faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the board; 2) all your checkers have past your opponent’s chips; or 3) your opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main goal of the blocking technique, by the title, is to stop your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your chips quickly. After you’ve created the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can move your other pieces quickly off the game board. The player really should also have a clear plan when to back off and shift the pieces that you used for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when the opposition uses the same blocking strategy.