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The aim of a Backgammon match is to shift your chips around the Backgammon board and pull those pieces off the board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Winning a match in Backgammon requires both strategy and fortune. Just how far you will be able to shift your checkers is left to the numbers from tossing the dice, and how you move your chips are determined by your overall playing tactics. Enthusiasts use different plans in the different parts of a game based on your positions and opponent's.

The Running Game Strategy

The goal of the Running Game technique is to entice all your chips into your home board and bear them off as fast as you could. This plan focuses on the speed of shifting your checkers with no time spent to hit or barricade your competitor's chips. The ideal time to employ this technique is when you think you can move your own checkers faster than your opponent does: when 1) you have less chips on the board; 2) all your checkers have moved beyond your competitor's chips; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking technique.

The Blocking Game Plan

The main aim of the blocking plan, by its title, is to stop your opponent's checkers, temporarily, while not fretting about moving your chips quickly. As soon as you have created the blockade for your competitor's movement with a couple of chips, you can move your other checkers quickly off the game board. You should also have a clear plan when to extract and move the pieces that you used for the blockade. The game gets interesting when your opposition uses the same blocking strategy.