As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a battered position if she at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of the opponent, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game technique utilizes different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is often employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.
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