The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 11/20/2019 06:25 pm by Zaire
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a damaged position if she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you move your checkers and toss 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 technique are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is frequently employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two 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 employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.