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The objective of a Backgammon match is to shift your pieces around the Backgammon board and bear them off the board quicker than your competitor who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match of Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and fortune. Just how far you will be able to shift your pieces is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and the way you move your pieces are decided on by your overall gambling tactics. Players use different tactics in the differing parts of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game tactic is to lure all your chips into your inner board and pull them off as quick as you can. This strategy focuses on the speed of advancing your chips with absolutely no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s chips. The best scenario to employ this strategy is when you believe you might be able to move your own chips quicker than your opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor’s chips; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main goal of the blocking strategy, by the name, is to stop your competitor’s pieces, temporarily, not fretting about moving your pieces quickly. After you’ve established the barrier for the opponent’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other pieces rapidly off the game board. You will need to also have a clear plan when to back off and move the chips that you employed for blocking. The game becomes interesting when the opponent uses the same blocking tactic.