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The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your chips around the game board and pull those pieces off the game board quicker than your competitor who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a round in Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and luck. How far you can shift your chips is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you shift your chips are determined by your overall gambling plans. Players use differing techniques in the different parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The aim of the Running Game plan is to entice all your pieces into your home board and get them off as quickly as you can. This plan focuses on the pace of advancing your pieces with little or no time spent to hit or block your competitor’s chips. The ideal scenario to employ this strategy is when you believe you can shift your own pieces faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your pieces have past your competitor’s chips; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Technique

The primary aim of the blocking strategy, by its name, is to stop your competitor’s pieces, temporarily, not fretting about moving your chips rapidly. As soon as you have created the blockade for your opponent’s movement with a few chips, you can shift your other chips rapidly from the game board. The player will need to also have an apparent plan when to withdraw and move the chips that you employed for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when the opposition utilizes the same blocking technique.