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The goal of a Backgammon match is to shift your pieces around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces off the board faster than your challenger who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a game in Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and luck. How far you can shift your pieces is up to the numbers from tossing the dice, and just how you shift your checkers are decided on by your overall playing tactics. Players use a few techniques in the differing stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The aim of the Running Game technique is to entice all your checkers into your inside board and get them off as quick as you could. This tactic concentrates on the speed of advancing your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or block your competitor’s pieces. The ideal scenario to use this tactic is when you think you can move your own pieces quicker than the opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the board; 2) all your pieces have moved beyond your opponent’s pieces; or 3) the opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Technique

The primary goal of the blocking technique, by its title, is to block your competitor’s pieces, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your checkers quickly. As soon as you’ve created the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other chips quickly off the game board. You will need to also have an apparent strategy when to withdraw and shift the checkers that you employed for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when the competitor uses the same blocking strategy.