As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move his chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a battered position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy uses different techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is often employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.
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