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The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your chips around the game board and get them from the board quicker than your opposing player who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round in Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and luck. How far you can shift your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and just how you move your chips are decided on by your overall playing techniques. Players use a few plans in the different stages of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game plan is to entice all your checkers into your home board and get them off as quickly as you could. This strategy concentrates on the speed of shifting your chips with little or no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s chips. The best scenario to employ this plan is when you believe you can move your own chips faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor’s chips; or 3) your opponent doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main aim of the blocking strategy, by its title, is to stop your competitor’s pieces, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your pieces rapidly. After you have created the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a few pieces, you can shift your other pieces quickly off the board. You will need to also have a good plan when to withdraw and move the pieces that you employed for the blockade. The game becomes intriguing when the opposition uses the same blocking technique.