As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, 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. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of the opponent, your opponent 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 Technique
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy relies on seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.
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