Backgammon Strategy Backgammon Strategy for Dummies

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime - ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor's chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, the competitor does not even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You'll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Technique

The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are similar - to hurt your opponent's positions in hope to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game strategy relies on seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly employed when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in 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 pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.