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The Essential Basics of Backgammon Game Plans – Part Two
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the game board to your home board and at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon plans to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move her pieces, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to block the movement of your opponent, your competitor does not even get to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The aims of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions hoping to better your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game technique utilizes seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game strategy is generally used when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.