The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a battered position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique uses different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often employed when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.
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