The Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part Two

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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is frequently utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play 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 tactic is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.