Backgammon

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.

The Priming Game Tactic

If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move her chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a bad position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of your opponent, the competitor does not even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is frequently used when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.