The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 09/08/2015 06:21 am by Madisyn
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of the opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game tactic utilizes alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.