As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift their checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, the opponent does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game tactic uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is generally utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 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 chips and how the chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.
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