The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 10/01/2021 09:25 am by Madisyn
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move their pieces, 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 opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or result a bad position if she ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of the competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique uses alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game tactic is commonly utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partially the result of the dice toss.