The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 11/29/2017 05:25 am by Zaire
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift her checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic uses alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is frequently used when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.