The Essential Facts of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The aim is to shift your chips safely around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposing player moves their pieces toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player chips shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move her checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a damaged position if she at all attempts to escape the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point eleven in your board. After you’ve successfully built the prime to prevent the movement of the competitor, the opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Technique
The goals of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game tactic are similar – to hurt your competitor’s positions in hope to boost your chances of winning, however the Back Game technique utilizes alternate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this technique, you have to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This tactic is more difficult than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your checkers and how the checkers are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice roll.