The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 09/11/2022 02:25 pm by Zaire
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, your competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy utilizes seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is generally utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.