The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 10/12/2015 03:21 pm by Zaire
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers 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 built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of your competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic relies on seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is generally employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 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 because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.