As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of the opponent, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game strategy relies on different tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is often employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you need to control two 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 checkers and how the chips are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.
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