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The aim of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the game board and get them off the board faster than your opponent who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a game in Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and luck. Just how far you will be able to move your chips is up to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you move your checkers are determined by your overall playing techniques. Players use differing techniques in the different parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your chips into your home board and bear them off as fast as you can. This technique concentrates on the pace of moving your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s pieces. The ideal time to use this tactic is when you think you can shift your own checkers quicker than the opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the game board; 2) all your checkers have past your opponent’s chips; or 3) your opponent does not use the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Technique

The primary aim of the blocking plan, by its title, is to block your competitor’s chips, temporarily, not worrying about moving your pieces rapidly. As soon as you’ve created the blockade for your competitor’s movement with a few pieces, you can shift your other chips rapidly off the game board. The player should also have a clear strategy when to extract and shift the checkers that you utilized for the blockade. The game becomes intriguing when the opposition uses the same blocking technique.