The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 03/21/2017 04:25 pm by Zaire
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a bad position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan relies on seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is generally used 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 challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.