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The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces from the board quicker than your opponent who works harder to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a match in Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and good luck. Just how far you will be able to move your checkers is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and just how you move your chips are decided on by your overall playing plans. Players use a few plans in the differing parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Plan

The aim of the Running Game plan is to bring all your chips into your home board and bear them off as quick as you can. This technique focuses on the speed of shifting your chips with little or no efforts to hit or block your opponent’s checkers. The best scenario to employ this plan is when you think you can move your own chips faster than the opposing player does: when 1) you have less pieces on the board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent’s checkers; or 3) the opposing player does not use 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. Once you have established the barrier for your competitor’s movement with a couple of pieces, you can shift your other chips quickly off the game board. You really should also have a good strategy when to back off and move the checkers that you used for the blockade. The game gets interesting when the competitor uses the same blocking strategy.