The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a casino game of skill and pure luck. The goal is to shift your checkers carefully around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their pieces toward their inside board in the opposite direction. With opposing player checkers heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for specific tactics at particular instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon techniques to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the purpose of the blocking strategy is to slow down the opponent to shift her chips, the Priming Game plan is to absolutely block any movement of the opponent by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s chips will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he at all tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anywhere between point two and point eleven in your half of the board. As soon as you’ve successfully assembled the prime to prevent the activity of your competitor, the competitor does not even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your pieces and toss the dice again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Plan
The goals of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game strategy are similar – to harm your competitor’s positions with hope to boost your odds of winning, but the Back Game strategy relies on alternate techniques to achieve that. The Back Game technique is often used when you are far behind your competitor. To participate in Backgammon with this plan, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single piece) late in the game. This plan is more difficult than others to play in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partly the result of the dice toss.