As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to block the movement of your opponent, the opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your checkers and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game plan uses different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally employed when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.
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