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The goal of a Backgammon match is to move your pieces around the game board and bear them off the board quicker than your opposing player who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a game in Backgammon needsrequires both tactics and good luck. How far you will be able to shift your checkers is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and just how you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing tactics. Players use a number of techniques in the differing parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent's.

The Running Game Technique

The goal of the Running Game plan is to bring all your pieces into your inner board and get them off as quick as you can. This plan concentrates on the pace of moving your chips with no time spent to hit or stop your competitor's chips. The ideal scenario to employ this tactic is when you think you can shift your own checkers faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the board; 2) all your checkers have past your competitor's checkers; or 3) the opposing player doesn't employ the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The main goal of the blocking strategy, by its name, is to block the competitor's chips, temporarily, while not worrying about shifting your checkers rapidly. After you've created the blockade for the opponent's movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other pieces rapidly off the board. You really should also have an apparent strategy when to withdraw and shift the chips that you employed for blocking. The game becomes interesting when your opposition uses the same blocking tactic.