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The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two

As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your opponent, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game plan uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often employed when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.

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