As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of the opponent, your competitor does not even get to roll the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.
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