As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully built the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique uses different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is frequently employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.
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