The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game plan utilizes different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is generally used when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need 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 because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.
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