As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift their checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, the competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy uses seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is generally used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.
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