The Essential Facts of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 03/20/2021 07:25 am by Madisyn
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any activity of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your competitor, the competitor does not even get to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game technique uses alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.