The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is often utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.