The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 06/23/2023 09:25 am by Lillie
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of ability and pure luck. The aim is to move your checkers safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition moves their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to better your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game plan uses different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot 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 checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.