The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player chips moving in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move their checkers, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely stop any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he/she ever attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to block the movement of the competitor, the opponent doesn’t even get to roll the dice, and you move your pieces and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to better your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game strategy relies on different techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is frequently used when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this technique, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your chips and how the chips are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.