The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 02/28/2020 08:25 am by Madisyn
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and good luck. The aim is to move your chips safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move his chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. After you have successfully built the prime to prevent the activity of the opponent, the opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your odds of winning, however the Back Game strategy relies on alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is frequently used when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.