The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 02/14/2016 06:21 am by Zaire
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point 11 in your board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, your competitor does not even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique uses alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is often utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.