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The Essential Facts of Backgammon Game Plans – Part 2
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and good luck. The aim is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opponent moves their chips toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon plans to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a bad position if he at all attempts to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you have successfully built the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to improve your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game technique relies on different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game technique is generally used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.