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The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your chips carefully around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift her pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to completely block any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point eleven in your board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the activity of your competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you shift your checkers and toss the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your odds of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic uses different tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is frequently utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more difficult than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the chips are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.