19 Nov 17

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a battered position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique relies on alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is frequently employed when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.