As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to better your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game plan utilizes different techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is generally employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.
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