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The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the game board and get those pieces off the board faster than your competitor who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a game in Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. How far you can move your checkers is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing strategies. Players 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 pull them off as quickly as you could. This strategy focuses on the speed of advancing your pieces with no time spent to hit or stop your opponent’s checkers. The best time to employ this plan is when you believe you can shift your own chips quicker than your opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) your opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main aim of the blocking tactic, by its title, is to stop your competitor’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about moving your checkers rapidly. As soon as you’ve established the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a few pieces, you can move your other pieces swiftly from the game board. The player will need to also have a good plan when to withdraw and shift the chips that you used for the blockade. The game gets interesting when the competitor utilizes the same blocking strategy.