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The goal of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the game board and pull them from the game board faster than your competitor who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a game in Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and fortune. Just how far you can move your pieces is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and just how you move your pieces are determined by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use a number of plans in the differing stages of a game depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your checkers into your home board and bear them off as fast as you could. This technique concentrates on the pace of advancing your pieces with little or no time spent to hit or stop your competitor’s chips. The best time to use this technique is when you think you might be able to move your own chips quicker than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) the opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main aim of the blocking strategy, by the name, is to stop your opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your chips rapidly. Once you have established the barrier for the opponent’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can move your other pieces rapidly off the board. The player should also have a good plan when to back off and shift the chips that you employed for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when your competitor uses the same blocking strategy.