The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 10/24/2015 03:21 am by Zaire
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The aim is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a bad position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of the opponent, your competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game plan utilizes seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is frequently used when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.