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The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the game board and get them off the board faster than your challenger who works harder to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a match of Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. How far you will be able to shift your pieces is up to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and just how you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing plans. Players use different techniques in the differing stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent's.

The Running Game Technique

The goal of the Running Game technique is to entice all your chips into your inner board and pull them off as fast as you can. This strategy concentrates on the pace of shifting your pieces with no time spent to hit or stop your opponent's checkers. The best scenario to use this plan is when you think you can shift your own chips a lot faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have less pieces on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent's chips; or 3) the opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Technique

The primary goal of the blocking plan, by the title, is to stop your competitor's checkers, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your chips quickly. After you have established the blockade for the opponent's movement with a few pieces, you can shift your other pieces rapidly from the board. The player should also have an apparent strategy when to extract and shift the chips that you utilized for the blockade. The game gets interesting when your opposition uses the same blocking strategy.