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The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
November 16th, 2020 by Kaitlynn

As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, your opponent does not even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique relies on different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.


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