The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 01/19/2016 06:21 pm by Zaire
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy uses seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is frequently used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 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 seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.