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The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game technique utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is frequently used when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control 2 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 use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.