The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 01/27/2022 10:25 am by Zaire
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The aim is to move your chips carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move their pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to better your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game technique relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game plan is generally utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.