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The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your pieces around the Backgammon board and pull them from the board faster than your opponent who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. Just how far you can shift your checkers is up to the numbers from tossing the dice, and the way you shift your pieces are determined by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use differing techniques in the differing parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The aim of the Running Game technique is to bring all your pieces into your home board and bear them off as quickly as you could. This plan concentrates on the speed of shifting your pieces with absolutely no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor’s chips. The best scenario to use this tactic is when you believe you can move your own pieces quicker than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) your opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main aim of the blocking plan, by its name, is to stop the competitor’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about moving your checkers quickly. After you’ve created the barrier for the opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other checkers quickly from the game board. You will need to also have a clear plan when to back off and shift the checkers that you utilized for the blockade. The game becomes intriguing when the competitor utilizes the same blocking strategy.