The Essential Facts of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 11/08/2024 04:25 pm by Madisyn
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular techniques at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift their checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, the competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to better your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique uses alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is often used when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.