The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 04/21/2022 05:25 am by Lillie
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you have successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of the opponent, the opponent does not even get to roll the dice, that means you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy uses different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold 2 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 requires careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.