As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is often used when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.
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