As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is commonly employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.
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