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The objective of a Backgammon match is to move your pieces around the game board and get them from the board quicker than your opposing player who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a round in Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and fortune. Just how far you will be able to move your chips is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you move your checkers are decided on by your overall playing plans. Enthusiasts use a few techniques in the differing parts of a match dependent on your positions and opponent’s.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game technique is to entice all your chips into your home board and bear them off as quick as you can. This plan concentrates on the pace of advancing your chips with no efforts to hit or stop your opponent’s checkers. The best scenario to use this plan is when you believe you might be able to move your own pieces quicker than your opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the game board; 2) all your pieces have past your competitor’s chips; or 3) your opposing player doesn’t employ the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main goal of the blocking plan, by the title, is to block your competitor’s pieces, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. Once you have established the blockade for the opponent’s movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other chips swiftly from the game board. You should also have a good strategy when to extract and shift the pieces that you utilized for blocking. The game gets intriguing when the competitor utilizes the same blocking strategy.