As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a bad position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to block the activity of the opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game plan relies on different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is often utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 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 because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.
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