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The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2

As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers 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 specific tactics at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move their checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of your competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly employed when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.

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