The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 05/23/2007 01:49 am by Lillie
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game technique relies on different tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is frequently employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.