The Essential Facts of Backgammon Tactics – Part 2
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and good luck. The goal is to move your checkers carefully around the game board to your inside board while at the same time your opposition moves their pieces toward their home board in the opposing direction. With opposing player pieces moving in opposite directions there is bound to be conflict and the need for particular tactics at specific instances. Here are the last two Backgammon strategies to complete your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the purpose of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move their pieces, the Priming Game tactic is to completely barricade any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get hit, or result a battered position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you have successfully assembled the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, your opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you shift your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The objectives of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions with hope to improve your odds of winning, but the Back Game technique uses alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game strategy is frequently employed when you are far behind your competitor. To play Backgammon with this plan, you have to hold two 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 use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partially the outcome of the dice roll.