The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move his chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, the competitor does not even get to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique relies on seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is frequently utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, 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 difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.