As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of your opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game tactic relies on different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is generally used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.
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