The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 05/14/2023 06:25 am by Zaire
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the 2 final 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 checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a damaged position if he ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy relies on different techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is often utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.