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The objective of a Backgammon match is to move your chips around the game board and bear them from the game board quicker than your opposing player who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and good luck. Just how far you will be able to shift your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and how you move your chips are decided on by your overall playing tactics. Players use a number of tactics in the different stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game tactic is to bring all your checkers into your inner board and get them off as fast as you can. This plan concentrates on the speed of advancing your chips with no time spent to hit or stop your competitor’s checkers. The ideal scenario to employ this technique is when you believe you might be able to shift your own pieces faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s pieces; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary goal of the blocking tactic, by the name, is to stop the competitor’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about moving your pieces rapidly. As soon as you have created the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other checkers quickly from the game board. The player should also have a good plan when to back off and move the checkers that you used for blocking. The game becomes interesting when the opponent utilizes the same blocking technique.