The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 03/02/2016 09:21 pm by Lillie
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon plans to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his 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 pieces will either get hit, or result a bad position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your chances of winning, however the Back Game strategy utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is often employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.