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The objective of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces from the board faster than your challenger who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a round of Backgammon requires both tactics and luck. Just how far you will be able to move 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 plans. Enthusiasts use a few plans in the different parts of a match depending on your positions and opponent's.

The Running Game Tactic

The goal of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your chips into your home board and get them off as quickly as you could. This plan concentrates on the speed of moving your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or stop your opponent's pieces. The ideal time to use this strategy is when you believe you might be able to shift your own checkers quicker than your opposing player does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your checkers have past your opponent's pieces; or 3) your opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The primary aim of the blocking plan, by the title, is to block the competitor's checkers, temporarily, not worrying about moving your chips quickly. After you have established the blockage for the opponent's movement with a few chips, you can shift your other chips quickly from the board. You will need to also have a good strategy when to extract and move the checkers that you utilized for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when the opponent uses the same blocking tactic.