The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and good luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent moves their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular techniques at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move her checkers, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anyplace between point two and point 11 in your half of the board. Once you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of your opponent, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You will win the game for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to harm your opponent’s positions with hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game tactic utilizes different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game plan is often used when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partially the result of the dice roll.