The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if she at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game plan uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.