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The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your chips around the Backgammon board and get them from the game board faster than your competitor who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and luck. Just how far you will be able to move your chips is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and just how you move your chips are determined by your overall gambling tactics. Enthusiasts use different tactics in the different stages of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

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

The Blocking Game Plan

The main goal of the blocking tactic, by the name, is to stop your opponent’s chips, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your pieces quickly. As soon as you’ve established the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other checkers swiftly from the game board. You should also have an apparent strategy when to withdraw and shift the chips that you utilized for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your competitor utilizes the same blocking technique.