The Essential Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 08/11/2019 03:25 pm by Madisyn
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move his chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by building 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 at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of the opponent, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy utilizes different techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.