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The aim of a Backgammon game is to move your checkers around the Backgammon board and pull those pieces from the board faster than your competitor who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a round in Backgammon requires both tactics and fortune. How far you will be able to shift your checkers is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you shift your pieces are determined by your overall playing tactics. Players use a few techniques in the differing parts of a game based on your positions and opponent's.

The Running Game Tactic

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to lure all your checkers into your home board and bear them off as fast as you can. This tactic concentrates on the pace of shifting your checkers with little or no efforts to hit or barricade your competitor's pieces. The best scenario to employ this tactic is when you believe you might be able to shift your own chips faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have a fewer checkers on the game board; 2) all your chips have moved beyond your opponent's chips; or 3) the opponent doesn't employ the hitting or blocking tactic.

The Blocking Game Strategy

The primary goal of the blocking tactic, by the name, is to block your competitor's chips, temporarily, not worrying about shifting your checkers quickly. Once you've established the blockage for the opponent's movement with a couple of checkers, you can move your other pieces swiftly off the board. You will need to also have a good strategy when to back off and move the chips that you used for the blockade. The game gets interesting when the opposition uses the same blocking technique.