As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move their chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he/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 board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique utilizes alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.
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