The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The goal is to shift your pieces safely around the board to your inner board while at the same time your opponent shifts their pieces toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, 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 bad position if she at all tries to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anyplace between point 2 and point 11 in your board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and roll the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to improve your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy uses different techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly utilized when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.