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The objective of a Backgammon match is to move your pieces around the game board and pull those pieces from the board quicker than your competitor who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Winning a match of Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. How far you can move your chips is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you shift your pieces are determined by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use a number of techniques in the different stages of a game dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The aim of the Running Game plan is to bring all your checkers into your inside board and bear them off as fast as you could. This plan focuses on the pace of advancing your pieces with no time spent to hit or block your opponent’s chips. The best time to employ this technique is when you think you might be able to shift your own checkers quicker than the opponent does: when 1) you have less checkers on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor’s checkers; or 3) the opponent does not use the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Plan

The primary goal of the blocking tactic, by the name, is to block the opponent’s pieces, temporarily, while not fretting about shifting your chips quickly. After you have created the blockade for the competitor’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can shift your other checkers rapidly from the board. You will need to also have a clear plan when to extract and move the pieces that you used for blocking. The game gets interesting when your competitor utilizes the same blocking technique.