The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 10/31/2015 09:21 am by Madisyn
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and good luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to move her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or result a battered position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, the opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan utilizes seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.