The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 08/11/2023 01:25 pm by Lillie
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. Once you have successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game tactic uses different techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is often employed when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.