As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift their chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your opponent does not even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique uses different tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is generally used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.
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