The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 10/24/2021 09:25 pm by Lillie
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opposing player moves their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift their pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. After you’ve successfully constructed the prime to prevent the activity of the opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game technique utilizes different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is generally utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.