The Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move their pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your opponent, your opponent does not even get to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game plan uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.
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