The Essential Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 05/04/2017 10:25 pm by Lillie
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your checkers carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in 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 board. After you have successfully built the prime to block the movement of your opponent, the competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your chances of winning, however the Back Game technique utilizes different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is often used when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.