The Essential Facts of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 04/24/2022 09:25 am by Zaire
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a battered position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy utilizes seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is generally used when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.