The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The aim is to move your pieces carefully around the board to your home board while at the same time your opposition shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposite direction. With competing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the requirement for particular tactics at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to move their chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely block any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he ever attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point eleven in your half of the board. After you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the movement of your competitor, your competitor 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 Strategy
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game tactic uses seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is often employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partially the result of the dice toss.