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The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your pieces around the game board and bear those pieces from the board faster than your opponent who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. How far you can shift your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and just how you shift your pieces are decided on by your overall playing techniques. Players use different tactics in the different stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The aim of the Running Game technique is to lure all your chips into your inside board and bear them off as fast as you could. This technique focuses on the pace of shifting your pieces with little or no time spent to hit or barricade your competitor’s pieces. The best time to use this strategy is when you believe you can move your own checkers a lot faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have less pieces on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent’s checkers; or 3) the opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main aim of the blocking strategy, by its title, is to stop your opponent’s chips, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your pieces rapidly. Once you have created the blockage for your competitor’s movement with a few chips, you can move your other checkers quickly from the game board. You will need to also have a good plan when to withdraw and move the checkers that you used for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your opposition utilizes the same blocking tactic.