The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 04/11/2020 01:25 pm by Lillie
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opponent moves their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or result a bad position if she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your game board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of the competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan relies on seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is generally employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, 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 challenging than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.