The Essential Facts of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 01/28/2020 02:25 am by Lillie
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of your competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game technique relies on alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is generally utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.