Backgammon Secrets

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As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and good luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to complete your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of the competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Plan

The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic relies on seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly employed when you’re 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 tactic is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.