The Essential Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 11/23/2019 04:25 pm by Lillie
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. As soon as you have successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, the opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique relies on seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is often employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.