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 opposition shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposing directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for specific techniques at particular times. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to move his checkers, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or result a battered position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, your competitor doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic relies on alternate techniques to do that. The Back Game tactic is commonly used when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more complex than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.