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The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2

As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game tactic relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.

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