The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 05/21/2020 03:25 am by Zaire
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and good luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if she ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game plan uses seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is often employed when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.