The Essential Details of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 01/03/2019 06:25 am 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 chips carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move her chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your opponent, the competitor does not even get to roll the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to better your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game technique utilizes alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is often employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.