As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of your opponent, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions hoping to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is generally employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.
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