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The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2

As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of the opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.

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