The Essential Details of Backgammon Tactics – Part Two
As we have dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The aim is to shift your pieces carefully around the board to your home board and at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at particular times. Here are the last two Backgammon techniques to complete your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking plan is to hamper the opponents ability to move his checkers, the Priming Game tactic is to completely stop any activity of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get hit, or end up in a battered position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be setup anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully built the prime to block the activity of your opponent, your opponent does not even get a chance to toss the dice, that means you shift your chips and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game strategy are very similar – to hurt your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game plan uses seperate tactics to achieve that. The Back Game tactic is commonly employed when you’re far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partly the outcome of the dice toss.