The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 12/31/2020 08:25 am by Madisyn
As we have 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 while at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. Once you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of the opponent, the opponent does not even get to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.