The Essential Facts of Backgammon Game Plans – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 10/21/2022 04:25 am by Zaire
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game technique utilizes seperate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is frequently used when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.