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The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the last two Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to shift his checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of your competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions in hope to improve your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic utilizes different tactics to achieve that. The Back Game plan is frequently used when you’re far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold 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 play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are moved is partly the outcome of the dice roll.