The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 12/04/2023 10:25 am by Lillie
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions hoping to better your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy relies on alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is generally employed when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are moved is partially the outcome of the dice toss.