The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 11/21/2016 05:25 pm by Lillie
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any movement of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of the opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game technique utilizes different tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is frequently employed 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 (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.