The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 03/14/2016 06:21 pm by Lillie
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your pieces safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift her chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy utilizes different techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is frequently utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.