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The aim of a Backgammon match is to move your chips around the game board and pull them from the 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 requires both tactics and good luck. How far you can move your chips is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and just how you shift your pieces are determined by your overall playing tactics. Players use different strategies in the different stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent's.

The Running Game Plan

The aim of the Running Game plan is to lure all your checkers into your inner board and get them off as quickly as you can. This strategy focuses on the speed of moving your checkers with no time spent to hit or barricade your opponent's pieces. The best scenario to employ this strategy is when you believe you can shift your own pieces faster than your opposition does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your pieces have past your opponent's pieces; or 3) your opponent doesn't employ the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The main aim of the blocking strategy, by its title, is to block the competitor's checkers, temporarily, not worrying about moving your chips rapidly. After you have created the barrier for your competitor's movement with a couple of pieces, you can shift your other pieces quickly from the game board. You will need to also have a good plan when to extract and move the checkers that you employed for the blockade. The game gets interesting when your opponent uses the same blocking strategy.