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The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your pieces around the Backgammon board and pull them from the board quicker than your opposing player who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a round in Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. Just how far you will be able to shift your checkers is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and how you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing strategies. Enthusiasts use a number of tactics in the different parts of a game dependent on your positions and opponent's.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game tactic is to entice all your pieces into your inner board and get them off as fast as you could. This technique concentrates on the speed of advancing your pieces with little or no efforts to hit or block your opponent's pieces. The best scenario to use this plan is when you believe you might be able to shift your own checkers faster than your opposing player does: when 1) you have less checkers on the board; 2) all your chips have past your opponent's pieces; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main aim of the blocking technique, by the name, is to stop your competitor's chips, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. As soon as you have established the blockage for your competitor's movement with a couple of pieces, you can shift your other pieces quickly from the board. The player really should also have a good plan when to back off and shift the checkers that you employed for blocking. The game gets intriguing when the competitor uses the same blocking technique.