The Essential Facts of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 2
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move his chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a battered position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often used when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.
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