The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and pure luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With competing player chips moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the two final Backgammon tactics to round out your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move his pieces, the Priming Game plan is to completely barricade any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a damaged position if he/she ever attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anyplace between point two and point 11 in your board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of the opponent, the opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game strategy and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your odds of winning, however the Back Game tactic utilizes different techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is generally employed when you are far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the result of the dice roll.