As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift their checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of your opponent, your opponent does not even get to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To play 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 difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.
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