As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or result a battered position if she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of the opponent, your competitor does not even get to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your chances of winning, however the Back Game strategy uses alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is frequently employed when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.
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