The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 03/13/2017 02:25 pm by Zaire
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and good luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or result a battered position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique utilizes different techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is frequently used when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold 2 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 use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.