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The objective of a Backgammon match is to move your chips around the Backgammon board and get them off the game board faster than your opponent who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you will be able to shift your pieces is up to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and how you shift your chips are decided on by your overall playing techniques. Players use differing tactics in the different parts of a game depending on your positions and opponent's.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game plan is to lure all your checkers into your home board and bear them off as quick as you can. This strategy focuses on the pace of moving your pieces with absolutely no time spent to hit or block your opponent's chips. The ideal scenario to use this strategy is when you think you might be able to move your own chips faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor's checkers; or 3) the opponent doesn't use the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary goal of the blocking strategy, by its name, is to stop the competitor's chips, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your checkers rapidly. Once you have created the barrier for the opponent's movement with a few chips, you can move your other pieces quickly off the game board. The player really should also have a good plan when to back off and shift the chips that you utilized for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when your opposition utilizes the same blocking tactic.