The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of skill and luck. The aim is to shift your checkers safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their inside board in the opposing direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular times. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift her chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or end up in a bad position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of your opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game plan utilizes different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is frequently utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This technique is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the chips are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.