The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 08/17/2019 09:25 pm by Lillie
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to move your checkers carefully around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With opposing player chips heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely stop any movement of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully built the prime to block the activity of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions hoping to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game technique utilizes alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is often employed when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.