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The Essential Basics of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and luck. The goal is to move your pieces safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift her chips, the Priming Game strategy is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, your competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to better your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic relies on alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game plan is commonly employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partly the result of the dice toss.
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