As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of your opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to better your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game plan relies on different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.
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