The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 12/21/2020 10:25 am by Lillie
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the board to your inside board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a bad position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. Once you have successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of the opponent, your opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy utilizes alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly used when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.