As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move their chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of your opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.
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