As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to block the movement of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy uses seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is frequently utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.
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