The Essential Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 11/17/2016 11:25 am by Zaire
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of the opponent, the opponent does not even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game plan utilizes alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is often utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.