The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of ability and good luck. The goal is to move your chips carefully around the game board to your inside board and at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With competing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon tactics to complete your game.
The Priming Game Plan
If the goal of the blocking tactic is to hamper the opponents ability to move their chips, the Priming Game tactic is to absolutely barricade any movement of the opponent by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he/she at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be established anywhere between point two and point 11 in your game board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of the opponent, your opponent does not even get a chance to roll the dice, that means you move your checkers and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game technique are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your odds of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy utilizes different techniques to do that. The Back Game strategy is frequently utilized when you’re far behind your competitor. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you have to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the pieces are relocated is partially the outcome of the dice toss.