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The objective of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the game board and get them from the board quicker than your opposing player who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a round in Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and good luck. How far you will be able to shift your chips is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you shift your pieces are decided on by your overall gambling techniques. Players use a few plans 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 bring all your checkers into your home board and get them off as fast as you could. This strategy focuses on the pace of shifting your pieces with no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s checkers. The ideal scenario to use this strategy is when you believe you can move your own checkers quicker than your opponent does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor’s checkers; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t use the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main aim of the blocking plan, by its name, is to block the competitor’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your pieces quickly. Once you’ve established the blockage for your opponent’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other pieces swiftly off the game board. You should also have a clear strategy when to back off and shift the pieces that you employed for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when your opposition uses the same blocking strategy.