The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 03/13/2019 03:25 am by Lillie
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if she ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions hoping to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game technique utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.