The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 09/12/2021 07:25 pm by Lillie
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a battered position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of your competitor, the opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game technique uses different tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly employed when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.