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The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your chips around the Backgammon board and get them off the board quicker than your opposing player who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round in Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. Just how far you will be able to shift your checkers is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and just how you move your chips are decided on by your overall gambling tactics. Players use differing tactics in the differing parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your checkers into your home board and get them off as quickly as you can. This plan focuses on the speed of moving your chips with absolutely no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s checkers. The best time to use this strategy is when you think you might be able to move your own pieces quicker than the opposition does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your opponent’s chips; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main aim of the blocking plan, by its name, is to stop your opponent’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your pieces quickly. After you have created the blockage for your opponent’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other checkers rapidly off the game board. The player should also have an apparent plan when to back off and move the pieces that you used for blocking. The game gets interesting when the opposition utilizes the same blocking tactic.