The Essential Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part Two
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or result a bad position if she ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy utilizes different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often employed when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two 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 seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.
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