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The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the game board and bear those pieces from the board quicker than your challenger who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match of Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. Just how far you can shift your chips is up to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you shift your chips are decided on by your overall playing techniques. Enthusiasts use a few plans in the different parts of a game based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game plan is to bring all your checkers into your inside board and pull them off as quick as you can. This tactic concentrates on the pace of advancing your chips with little or no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s pieces. The ideal time to employ this plan is when you think you might be able to shift your own checkers a lot faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) your opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main aim of the blocking plan, by its title, is to stop the opponent’s checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your checkers rapidly. As soon as you have established the blockage for the opponent’s movement with a few pieces, you can shift your other chips rapidly off the board. The player should also have a good plan when to withdraw and shift the pieces that you utilized for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when your opposition uses the same blocking technique.