The Essential Facts of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 02/03/2019 08:25 pm by Madisyn
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a bad position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, your opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often used when you’re far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.