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The goal of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the Backgammon board and get them from the game board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a match of Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and good luck. Just how far you will be able to shift your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you shift your pieces are determined by your overall playing plans. Players use different techniques in the different stages of a game dependent on your positions and opponent's.

The Running Game Strategy

The aim of the Running Game technique is to entice all your checkers into your home board and get them off as quickly as you could. This tactic concentrates on the pace of moving your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or block your opponent's pieces. The ideal scenario to employ this strategy is when you think you can shift your own chips a lot faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the game board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor's chips; or 3) your opponent doesn't employ the hitting or blocking strategy.

The Blocking Game Plan

The primary goal of the blocking tactic, by the name, is to stop the opponent's checkers, temporarily, while not worrying about moving your checkers rapidly. As soon as you have created the blockage for your competitor's movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other checkers rapidly from the board. You will need to also have a clear plan when to extract and shift the chips that you used for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when your competitor uses the same blocking tactic.