The Essential Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any activity of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she at all tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to block the activity of the opponent, the competitor doesn’t even get to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions hoping to improve your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is frequently employed when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this tactic, you have to hold two 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 use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the pieces are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.