The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic uses different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is generally used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.
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