The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two

As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The aim is to shift your chips safely around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, the competitor does not even get to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your chances of winning, however the Back Game plan uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally used when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.

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