The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 11/09/2021 08:25 am by Zaire
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. Once you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of the opponent, the competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan utilizes different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is frequently used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play 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 complex than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.