The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of ability and luck. The goal is to move your chips safely around the game board to your inner board while at the same time your opposing player moves their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With competing player checkers heading in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific strategies at specific times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking tactic is to slow down the opponent to shift his chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely barricade any activity of the opponent by building a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s pieces will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he at all attempts to leave the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your board. Once you’ve successfully built the prime to stop the activity of the competitor, your competitor does not even get to roll the dice, and you shift your checkers and roll the dice again. You’ll be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game plan and the Blocking Game plan are similar – to hinder your competitor’s positions hoping to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game tactic relies on seperate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is commonly used when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This tactic is more complex than others to use in Backgammon seeing as it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice roll.