The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 04/20/2016 04:21 am by Zaire
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move their checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, your competitor does not even get to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions hoping to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic utilizes alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is frequently employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.