The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to move your checkers carefully around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique uses alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.