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The goal of a Backgammon match is to shift your checkers around the game board and get them from the board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match of Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. How far you can shift your pieces is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and how you move your pieces are determined by your overall playing plans. Players use a number of techniques in the different stages of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game tactic is to lure all your checkers into your inner board and pull them off as quick as you could. This strategy focuses on the pace of advancing your pieces with absolutely no time spent to hit or stop your opponent’s checkers. The best scenario to use this tactic is when you think you can shift your own chips faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; or 3) the opponent doesn’t use the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The primary aim of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to block your opponent’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about moving your checkers rapidly. After you’ve established the barrier for your opponent’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can move your other checkers quickly from the board. The player really should also have an apparent strategy when to extract and shift the checkers that you employed for the blockade. The game gets interesting when your competitor uses the same blocking strategy.