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The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2

As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move their checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, your competitor does not even get to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique relies on seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is frequently used when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.

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