The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 10/24/2015 10:21 am by Lillie
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The aim is to move your pieces safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific strategies at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic relies on different techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is often employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.