Backgammon Strategy Backgammon Strategy for Dummies

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to complete your game.

The Priming Game Plan

If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move their checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. Once you've successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of your opponent, your opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You'll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar - to hurt your opponent's positions with hope to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique relies on seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is frequently employed when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.