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The objective of a Backgammon game is to shift your chips around the game board and bear them from the game board quicker than your competitor who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. How far you will be able to move your chips is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you shift your chips are decided on by your overall playing plans. Players use differing strategies in the differing stages of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game technique is to entice all your pieces into your inside board and pull them off as fast as you can. This strategy focuses on the pace of shifting your chips with no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s pieces. The best time to use this technique is when you think you might be able to shift your own pieces a lot faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer chips on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player does not employ the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main aim of the blocking plan, by the name, is to block your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about moving your checkers quickly. Once you have created the barrier for the competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can shift your other checkers rapidly off the board. You really should also have a good plan when to back off and shift the chips that you used for the blockade. The game becomes intriguing when the opponent utilizes the same blocking tactic.