As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or result a bad position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, your opponent does not even get to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan utilizes seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is frequently used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.
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