The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 05/20/2021 01:25 pm by MadisynAs we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers moving in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of your opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game plan relies on different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is frequently used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 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 checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.