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The objective of a Backgammon game is to shift your pieces around the game board and pull them off the board quicker than your opposing player who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match in Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and good luck. How far you can shift your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you shift your pieces are determined by your overall gambling tactics. Players use a number of tactics in the different stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game technique is to lure all your checkers into your home board and pull them off as quickly as you could. This strategy concentrates on the pace of shifting your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or barricade your opponent’s checkers. The ideal scenario to use this strategy is when you think you might be able to shift your own pieces faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; or 3) your opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The primary goal of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to block the opponent’s checkers, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your checkers rapidly. As soon as you have created the blockade for your competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other chips quickly off the board. You will need to also have an apparent plan when to back off and move the checkers that you utilized for the blockade. The game gets interesting when your opposition uses the same blocking tactic.