The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 10/23/2023 07:25 am by Lillie
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his chips, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or result a bad position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of your opponent, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game plan relies on different techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is generally used when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice roll.