As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of your competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to control two 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 seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.
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