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The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the game board and pull those pieces off the board quicker than your competitor who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. Just how far you will be able to shift your chips is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your pieces are determined by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use a few techniques in the different stages of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The aim of the Running Game tactic is to entice all your pieces into your home board and bear them off as fast as you could. This tactic focuses on the speed of advancing your chips with absolutely no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s pieces. The best time to use this strategy is when you believe you might be able to shift your own pieces quicker 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 opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The primary aim of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to stop the competitor’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your checkers rapidly. After you have created the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other checkers swiftly from the game board. The player really should also have a clear plan when to withdraw and move the pieces that you used for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when the opposition uses the same blocking technique.