The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
Posted in Backgammon on 01/01/2025 02:25 pm by Lillie
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely block any activity of the opposing player by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or result a bad position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of the competitor, your opponent does not even get to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your odds of winning, however the Back Game strategy utilizes seperate techniques to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly utilized when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.