As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of your opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique relies on alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.
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