The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 04/20/2016 02:21 am by Madisyn
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift their checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you have successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your checkers and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy uses alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.