The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 11/04/2019 12:25 pm by Zaire
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of your competitor, your competitor does not even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.