The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 10/05/2021 01:25 am by Lillie
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of the opponent, your opponent does not even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy relies on alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is often used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.