Backgammon

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As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and good luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Tactic

The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to better your chances of winning, however the Back Game plan uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.