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The aim of a Backgammon game is to shift your checkers around the Backgammon board and bear them from the board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to attempt the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a round in Backgammon requires both tactics and good luck. How far you can shift your checkers is left to the numbers from tossing a pair of dice, and how you move your chips are determined by your overall playing techniques. Players use different techniques in the differing parts of a match based on your positions and opponent's.

The Running Game Tactic

The aim of the Running Game technique is to entice all your chips into your home board and get them off as quickly as you could. This tactic concentrates on the speed of advancing your chips with absolutely no time spent to hit or stop your competitor's pieces. The best scenario to employ this plan is when you believe you might be able to move your own chips faster than the opponent does: when 1) you have less chips on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your competitor's checkers; or 3) the opponent doesn't employ the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main goal of the blocking tactic, by its name, is to stop your competitor's pieces, temporarily, not worrying about moving your chips rapidly. As soon as you have established the blockade for the opponent's movement with a few chips, you can shift your other checkers rapidly from the board. The player should also have an apparent strategy when to extract and shift the pieces that you utilized for the blockade. The game becomes interesting when the opponent uses the same blocking tactic.