The Essential Facts of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 2

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and good luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move his pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement 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 be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic utilizes different techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.