The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of the opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy utilizes different tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.