The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 06/19/2021 01:25 am by Zaire
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move his pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a damaged position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions hoping to better your chances of winning, however the Back Game strategy relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is commonly employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.