The Essential Details of Backgammon Game Plans – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 04/22/2023 03:25 pm by Zaire
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift their pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a battered position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of the opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.