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The objective of a Backgammon match is to move your chips around the Backgammon board and pull them off the board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a round of Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you can move your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you shift your pieces are determined by your overall playing strategies. Players use a number of tactics in the different parts of a match based on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Technique

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to entice all your chips into your inner board and pull them off as quickly as you can. This tactic focuses on the pace of shifting your checkers with no time spent to hit or barricade your competitor’s chips. The ideal scenario to employ this plan is when you believe you might be able to shift your own chips faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your opponent’s chips; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary goal of the blocking strategy, by its name, is to stop your competitor’s checkers, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your pieces quickly. As soon as you have created the blockage for your opponent’s movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other pieces quickly off the board. The player will need to also have a good strategy when to withdraw and shift the chips that you used for blocking. The game becomes intriguing when your opponent uses the same blocking technique.