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The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the Backgammon board and bear those pieces off the game board quicker than your challenger who works just as hard to do the same buthowever they move in the opposite direction. Succeeding in a match in Backgammon requires both strategy and good luck. Just how far you will be able to move your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling the dice, and how you shift your chips are determined by your overall playing strategies. Enthusiasts use a number of strategies in the differing stages of a match dependent on your positions and opponent's.

The Running Game Plan

The goal of the Running Game technique is to bring all your pieces into your inner board and pull them off as fast as you can. This tactic focuses on the speed of advancing your chips with no efforts to hit or block your opponent's pieces. The best scenario to employ this tactic is when you believe you might be able to move your own pieces quicker than your opposing player does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the board; 2) all your checkers have past your competitor's pieces; or 3) the opposing player does not use the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Tactic

The primary goal of the blocking tactic, by its title, is to stop the opponent's checkers, temporarily, not worrying about moving your chips quickly. Once you have created the blockage for the competitor's movement with a few checkers, you can shift your other chips quickly off the board. You will need to also have a clear strategy when to extract and shift the pieces that you used for the blockade. The game becomes intriguing when the opponent uses the same blocking tactic.