The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 10/04/2015 11:21 pm by Lillie
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to shift your chips safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of the opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique uses different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.