The Essential Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 01/31/2016 11:21 am by Lillie
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your chips safely around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a battered position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique relies on different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.