As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose 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 opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game plan utilizes seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.
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