Backgammon

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As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a battered position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan relies on different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is frequently employed when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.