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The Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move his chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game technique utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.