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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The aim is to move your checkers carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic relies on alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.

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