Backgammon

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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game strategy utilizes different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is frequently used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need 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 chips and how the pieces are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.