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The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your pieces around the Backgammon board and pull them off the game board quicker than your challenger who works harder to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match in Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you can shift your checkers is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and the way you shift your pieces are determined by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use a few plans in the differing parts of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

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

The Blocking Game Tactic

The primary goal of the blocking strategy, by its title, is to block your competitor’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your pieces quickly. Once you have created the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can shift your other pieces rapidly from the board. The player should also have a good strategy when to back off and shift the chips that you employed for blocking. The game gets interesting when the opponent uses the same blocking strategy.