The Essential Details of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 01/12/2016 11:21 am by Zaire
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.